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...down to southern Cheju Island from Seoul to watch a football game a week before the Cup, Chung, 50, is leaning back in his seat and pointing to his left elbow, which he banged up playing basketball. He shifts his left shoulder: crushed bones and severed tendons in a ski-racing accident. Then there's the right knee fractured by a football tackle. Pointing to a scar on his right hand, he smiles boyishly: "Street boxing." Street boxing? "In college, I was a good boxer," he says, then leans forward, grinning. Well, actually, he confides, there was this girl...
...nordic unit, which doesn’t recruit and lacks a full-time coach, made a similar one-time excursion to train in Utah, but missed the season’s first carnival due to finals and was largely prevented from practicing on even the nearby Weston Ski Track by this year’s mild winter...
Still, Harvard’s ski teams fought all season to turn in competitive times and managed to finish 11th out of 18 schools at the Middlebury Carnival, the final team event of the year...
...shirt-blue-suit-discreet-tie FBI reinvented itself from a corps of 'generalists,' trained in law and accounting, into a confrontational 'Special Weapons and Tactics' (aka SWAT) Green Beret-style army of warriors who like to dress up in camouflage or black ninja clothing and, depending on the caper, ski masks." Note the penultimate noun in that sentence: in Vidal's account, it's those who job it is to fight crime who are the criminals, and who pull the "capers...
...Want a brewski?” Boris G. Sumilovitch ’03 was asked several years ago. “I certainly do-ski!” he responded wittily. Sumilovitch has been telling the story of “that awesome time I said ‘I certainly do-ski’” ever since. Observers speculate that constant repetition of the story could explain the frequency with which Sumilovitch endures violent nut-kickings...