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Hoping to dodge his devils, Devlin pursues a second skill. He is a Tae Kwon Do adept, and though he is white, middle aged and middle class, he opens a gym to teach this Korean martial art in Baltimore's black ghetto. This is both inspiration and folly, redoubled because he encourages his 17-year-old daughter, who also knows Tae Kwon Do, to help out. The neighborhood's young black drug dealers are pragmatists, eager to learn the fighting discipline for self-protection when they are sent to prison. Devlin, an idealist trying shakily not to unravel, commits...
This past weekend saw the Harvard women's volleyball team face three competitors in a tournament at McDonough Gym in Virginia...
Parker is still battling the gender issue, both inside the gym...
...result, Parker needed a new coach. A month after putting out a query over the Internet, she got a single response and began training at another gym...
...Parker tells her mother, "there were a lot more broken noses on my sister's lacrosse team last spring," then there are in her gym, and boxing has kept her in better mental and physical shape than any other sport she has tried...