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...Master Peter H.U. Lee, head instructor for the Harvard taekwondo club and 6th-dan black belt, said he hoped the tournament would bring more attention to the sport...
...this is about as colorful an anecdote as you'll ever hear about John Maxwell Coetzee (kut-see-uh). He is intensely private (some say cripplingly shy) and deeply (some say coldly) intellectual, but above all, he is a grand master of the complex game of postmodern literary theory, inclined to speak--when he speaks at all--in riddles and codes. As a South African, he lived in a society in which writers were always issuing polemics and producing grimly realistic novels about our perpetual crisis. Not Coetzee. He still declines to take sides, join causes or issue comments...
...larger South African drama deflated, Coetzee seemed to turn to his private life for inspiration. His son died in a mysterious fall; he wrote The Master of Petersburg, a novel about a father similarly stricken. His ex-wife died of cancer, and he produced Age of Iron, a work that contains some of the most harrowing descriptions of pain ever written. In the mid-'90s, he came forth with autobiographical accounts of his youth, and then came Disgrace (1999), the tale of an arrogant white academic hounded out of his job by the gender police, humiliated by criminals and relegated...
...magical moment in which two continents, two souls and two worlds (this one and the next) converge for one quietly rapturous moment.” Tsai is no stranger to rapturous moments; in fact, with films like this he is solidifying his position as a master of the lingering shades of meaning that meander through life, exhibiting them slowly, so that all can breathe in their atmosphere...
Robert P. Kirshner, master of Quincy House, said that his unrestricted House is hoping for the best...