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...Konopka while studying at Brown. After officially forming in 1999, OK Go finally broke when Ira Glass, host of the public radio show “This American Life,” requested that the band perform with him on a touring version of the show. Their fan base grew rapidly, and they were eventually signed by Capitol Records. The band recorded an entire disc’s worth of material, but then scrapped it in favor of new recordings that now comprise the OK Go album. When asked about this decision, Kulash is quick to defend himself...
...together and decided to do something fun with all the ice, rocks and sticks surrounding them. It was in this land of bagpipes and plaid kilts that the sport of curling was born. Now, with its inclusion in the 2002 Winter Olympics and the resulting TV-inspired fan base, curling is slowly moving beyond the categorical limits of hairstyling and gift-wrapping and into the sports vocabulary of even non-Canadians...
Although Augusta National and other private clubs have the legal right to restrict their membership along gender lines, it is morally repugnant to do so. To base membership decisions in any institution along gender lines, whether it is explicitly stated in membership rules or not, is discrimination pure and simple; the entire golf community should push for an end to Augusta National’s reprehensible admission criteria...
...then heard from privates at the base that his son might have been killed by fellow soldiers at a drunken party. Further inquiries ran into a wall of silence?which 16 years later, the still grieving father hoped would finally crumble when President Kim Dae Jung set up a presidential commission to investigate suspicious deaths under Korea's authoritarian regimes. Like similar panels set up in post-apartheid South Africa and post-junta Argentina, the commission was supposed to set the record straight and heal the wounds of the past. From Park Chung Hee's coup in 1961 until...
...ring in South Korea. The commission determined that Choi died under torture or was thrown out of a window. For Hur Yong Chun, the process provided some of the answers he's sought for more than 18 years. After hearing closed-door testimony from men who were at the base, the commission found that a drunken sergeant identified only as Roh?a common surname in South Korea?accidentally shot Hur's son once in the chest at a party in the early hours of April 2, 1984. The next morning?when the wounded soldier was still alive?he was shot...