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...Broadway: while a patriotic North Korean song blared in the background, a dozen actors playing prison guards marched menacingly in goosestep around three Yodok inmates caught trying to escape. Jung, who says his father was publicly executed in one of Kim's camps, intends to play things straight. The story, which Jung himself wrote, is nothing if not realistic, which is to say it's about as grim as can be. It revolves around a 26-year-old dancer imprisoned along with her family after her father is accused of spying for South Korea's National Intelligence Service...
...first day they were a little bit stressed. They're eating very well, and Thor, the one who talks, said, 'Good morning,' straight away." DERRICK COYLE, Raven Master at the Tower of London, where fears of bird flu forced the famous birds to be moved indoors from the grassy inner courtyard...
...road trip of the season, facing second-place Princeton (8-14, 6-3) two weeks after Noah Savage’s buzzerbeater stunned the Crimson and handed Harvard its second consecutive loss in the final seconds following a 79-77 road loss to Cornell the week before. After three straight double-digit losses at home, Harvard is now in the midst of its worst losing streak of the season. And the team is in need of answers. “I think we have to continue working hard on defense,” said senior guard Mike Beal...
...Maybe that was the topic of postgame discussion during the team meeting after the Harvard men’s basketball squad dropped its fifth-straight Ivy League game Saturday night...
...whole is mired in mediocrity, it’s hard to demand more than that from each of its component parts. Sure, Sullivan seems destined for no better than a 7-7 Ivy finish, which would be the squad’s sixth in eight years and the ninth straight season that the Crimson failed to finish above .500 in the Ivy League. But in six seasons under coach Peter Roby, Sullivan’s predecessor, Harvard never cracked .500 in league play and only hit 7-7 twice...