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Hoping to dodge his devils, Devlin pursues a second skill. He is a Tae Kwon Do adept, and though he is white, middle aged and middle class, he opens a gym to teach this Korean martial art in Baltimore's black ghetto. This is both inspiration and folly, redoubled because he encourages his 17-year-old daughter, who also knows Tae Kwon Do, to help out. The neighborhood's young black drug dealers are pragmatists, eager to learn the fighting discipline for self-protection when they are sent to prison. Devlin, an idealist trying shakily not to unravel, commits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: STREET GAMES | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

Ellison was an active dancer, athlete and martial artist six years, one month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First-Year Ellison Makes Harvard Work | 10/5/1996 | See Source »

...president of the South Asian Association and vice-chair of the Academic Affairs Committee of the Harvard Foundation for Inter-Cultural and Race Relations, Gupta also has responsibilities outside the lab. She is a violinist who has a black belt in a Korean martial...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Glamour Names Gupta One of Top 10 College Women | 9/20/1996 | See Source »

Since his December announcement, Gates has backed up his martial rhetoric with action. Over the past three months, Microsoft programmers have released a stream of new products designed to seduce Net users away from Netscape. With everything from software giveaways to massive developer conferences (Microsoft rented 40 movie theaters on July 16 for a programmers' gathering), the gang from Redmond, Washington, has pressed home one message: Microsoft is playing for keeps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WINNER TAKE ALL: MICROSOFT V. NETSCAPE | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

...double-time of smacks and crashes that are a foley artist's dream. Sometimes the action gets too fast to track, but you get the sense that like the erratic flight of a bat the action, if slowed down, has an underlying elegance. (Indeed, to Chan's ample martial arts experience, Khan has extensive training in ballet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chan's Physical Antics Give 'Supercop' a Scrappy Appeal | 8/6/1996 | See Source »

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