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...putting on a Southern accent. It would be hard for anyone to infer from his quiet and modest exterior that Baek recently launched a music career on the other side of the world. His first single, “Because of the Memories,” has circulated on Korean Web sites since November...
...That’s when I started reading and writing in Korean, trying to decipher the language, and I ended up learning the many words for heartbreak,” Baek says...
...novel War Trash - an exhaustively researched work about the Korean War and winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award - was his first to be set outside China. A Free Life is the first to be set in his adopted home, and he deftly conjures an American landscape of rolling, wide-open spaces spangled by brawny, glimmering rivers ("This sight beats the Yangtze," Pingping gushes, while she gazes at the "mighty and vast" Hudson, just outside New York City). There are also decent depictions of bland, sleepy McSuburbs like Lilburn, Ga. - a typical bedroom community of electricians, engineers, stucco churches and donut shops...
...none other than Yo-Yo Ma ’76. Ma might have been reluctant to take it back, though: during his freshman year, Koh told the Harvard Independent’s annual sex survey that his greatest fantasy was to have sex with his cello. A native South Korean and a member of the newly founded Harvard Students for Human Rights in North Korea, Koh was supposed to travel to Pyongyang in North Korea last year to perform in the Isang Yun World Peace concert, which aimed to bring together musicians from the two Koreas. While North Korea?...
...Axis of Evil arrived in Lebanon last week. No, not in the form of some Iran-backed coup d' état, but as a stand-up comedy team made up of three Americans of Middle Eastern descent. (They couldn't find a funny North Korean.) On the last leg of a regional tour playing to sold-out venues in Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan, they arrived at the Casino Du Liban outside of Beirut with a certain sense of relief. Lebanon was the only country that allowed them to perform their routine with expletives undeleted - no small challenge...