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...Ko Un claims to have been born, firstly, as a mare near the Caspian Sea in 1125 B.C. In A.D. 1402, he says, he was reincarnated as a peddler in Samarkand and, half a millennium later, after stints as a firewood collector and an "innkeeper in an unknown land," he says he was born the eldest son of a farmer in Gunsan, present day South Korea, in 1933. Walking home from school one day in that "obscure corner of the world" - then like the rest of the country under Japanese colonial occupation, but now a drab port with an American...
During the Korean War, Ko was forced to cart away corpses. After, he became a Buddhist monk and wandered over the vales and hills of South Korea, a "nation of unending waves!" For 10 years he lived off alms, often sleeping in graveyards and caves. He also published his first poems, which he has since likened to "tufts of grass among the ruins" of the fratricidal war - a typically earthy metaphor for a poet derided by his detractors as artless and quaintly rustic. The landscapes in his poems are undeniably folksy. Villagers get drunk on bootleg makgeolli - the milky, fizzy...
...attempt to reverse the slide, the sport is trying to go back to the future. Saturday night's highly anticipated match-up between the undefeated Mayweather (39-0, 25 KO's), who is returning to boxing after a 21-month hiatus, and Juan Manuel Marquez (50-4-1, 37 KOs), the top fighter in Mexico, will be shown in 170 movie theaters around the country. It will be the first big fight shown in theaters since 1980, when Sugar Ray Leonard beat Roberto Duran. The move harks back to the sport's glory days, when thousands of fans filled theaters...
...comedy is playing two theaters down the hall? "Well, you've accommodated her many times to see the chick flick," says Schaefer. "Maybe it's time that she accommodated you." Good luck with that. If the future of boxing hinges on male control of date night, consider the sport KO...
...matches against a variety of highly-ranked opponents, the athletes faced one another for the title. Tachibana emerged as the victor, defeating Cao, 6-7, 6-4, 6-3.However, this was ultimately a team victory for Harvard. Cao and Tachibana showed that they could fill the shoes of graduates Beier Ko and Laura Peterzan, the top two players in the Crimson’s lineup last season. This year’s team is a young one, with four freshmen, four sophomores, two juniors, and no seniors. But in the mind of both Tachibana and Harvard coach Traci Green, this characteristic...