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...forget it since the war would be over in a week. For me, the Korean War began in my backyard. Before becoming a TIME correspondent, I was with the American embassy in Seoul, and on Sunday morning of June 25, 1950, I'd been trying to get a patch of grass growing outside the Japanese-style house where I lived with my wife and three small children when a breakfast-time call came to get in to the office quickly. By midafternoon, trucks loaded with South Korean soldiers holding branches over their heads, as if those sprigs could camouflage them...
Mike Leslie, 30, clad in Hawaiian shirt and emerald wraparound shades, hums a Metallica tune as he climbs to a makeshift tee and swings his 3-iron. His ball sails across a steep slope before settling into a patch of daisies. "When I look at these mountains," he says, "I think of only one thing: golf course...
...funny essays on junk cinema, Michael J. Nelson, star of dear old Mystery Science Theater 3000, pokes at dead things with a nice Midwestern disdain. Among his targets: Patch Adams (about a doctor whose mission is to "put on a clown nose and frighten children") and actor Jason Lee ("He sucks out loud. He sucks on toast. He forces me to use the word sucks"). In the land of suckitude, Mike Nelson is king...
Near the town of Coldwater in Tate County, Miss., where the kudzu hills rise gently from the Delta flatlands in the west, there's a gravel track that runs through stands of scrub oak and pine to reach a dusty clearing: two single-wide trailers, a small vegetable patch, a bluetick hound sleeping in the lee of a faded green Lincoln. Music is in the air--the fierce, hypnotic boogie known as hill-country blues--because this is the headquarters of the North Mississippi Allstars...
Martin Amis went through a bad patch during the mid-'90s, much of it eagerly, indeed cheerfully, recounted in the British press. He left his wife of almost 10 years and his two sons to take up with an American woman. Dissatisfied with the negotiations for the rights to his eighth novel, The Information, he dumped his agent, Pat Kavanagh, thereby infuriating her husband, the author Julian Barnes, who was until that moment one of Amis' closest friends. Amis underwent a long bout of dental reconstruction, prompting reporters to observe, in print, that he was not only a failed husband...