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...Interviews with former friends and associates as well as an archive of self-promoting videos reveal a man whose self-perception veered comically from reality. Despite declaring physical prowess on a par with Arnold Schwarzenegger, at 1.64 meters tall he had to stand on a box to perform pull-ups. He spoke in a stammer unvanquished by regular practice before a mirror. Raised in a farm-dotted suburb of Fukuoka by a truck-driver dad and homemaker mom, he attended the vocational Fukuoka Manufacturing High School so sporadically that he flunked the 10th grade...
Dramatic changes to undergraduate education—including abolishing the Core Curriculum, reforming Harvard’s sub-par advising system and addressing grade inflation—should be Kirby’s first priority. His comments indicating such a focus two days ago were a promising start...
...Htut has likewise sterilized more controversial parts of his work?thus avoiding the fate of Par Par Lay, a well-known comedian who in 1996 received a seven-year prison sentence for satirizing the country's ruling generals. Not everyone is willing to bend. Mun Awng, a popular musician in Burma in the 1980s, left the country in 1988 after participating in a wave of antigovernment demonstrations. From Thailand, he released an album titled Battle for Peace, and activists sang his songs while facing down the military in 1996 street protests. He now lives in Norway, performing occasionally for Burmese...
...contest for macho supremacy, I knew I could not hold par with this Amazonian motorcycle high priestess. For God’s sake, Stith was donning a real motorcycle jacket, whose tough black leather had been worn rugged by a thousand rides, whereas the clubby leather jacket I was sporting had barely a crease to show for its one-time trek halfway across the world from some Sri Lankan factory to my dorm room closet...
Sophomore Meredith Chiampa earned first place after shooting a round of 80, eight strokes above par. The score tied her with Boston College’s Roxanne Somboonsiri for the top spot, forcing a playoff. Chiampa won the title on the second playoff hole...