Just across the street from Halla Classic is Harrington Tower. Its basement is given over to a series of restaurants, one of which is Oh Han Soo Beef Noodles. I have had lunch there many a time. But I noticed that its manager, 29-year-old Han...
Sometimes I think back to those days, especially between 1962 and 1965, when I sat in a circle with a dozen or so other children in a Sunday School class at Casa Linda Presbyterian Church in Dallas. Who was our teacher? Did she—such teachers were...
“Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen, mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smoky Joe Wood.” Those words were spoken by Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators, who had a heck of a fastball himself. Wood (Boston Red Sox and...
There was no reason to shade the truth when I wrote about Christian McCaffrey of the Carolina Panthers in 2020. I opined that he was then the top running back in the NFL and—on the basis of his first three seasons—the finest White runner the...
We would not expect the feeble, octogenarian POTUS to abandon the White House or the British prime minister to leave 10 Downing Street, or the Philippine president to quit Malacañang Palace or Kenya’s president to desert the State House or the...
Yong Yoon, Jeong Choong-jae and I hope to convince some enterprising Americans to come here and do a movie based on Mr. Jeong’s 2010 book Golden Lily Operation. Why not? Yamashita: The Tiger’s Treasure premiered 20 years ago and did quite well...
In President Richard Nixon’s memoirs, he wrote thus of Charles Colson: “His instinct for the political jugular and ability to get things done made him a lightning rod for my own political frustrations…. When I complained to Colson, I felt...
I played church baseball with Kevin Nietmann in Dallas nearly six decades ago. After high school graduation, I went to Austin and he went to Annapolis. Not only is Kevin an alumnus of the U.S. Naval Academy, he is also an arch-conservative. That...
I have never had a Jewish girlfriend. The number of Jewish students at the four Dallas public schools I attended between 1958 and 1971 certainly did not exceed 100. As for my time at the University of Texas, I often passed by the Texas Hillel...
The area around Gangnam Subway Station is crowded with people and cars, the air is bad, real estate prices are sky-high, and stores open and close with numbing regularity: A restaurant becomes a real estate office becomes a juice bar becomes a...
Has professional basketball ever seen a more foolish move than when Michael Jordan said toodle-oo to his Chicago Bulls teammates after three straight NBA championships so he could play baseball—rather badly—with the Birmingham Barons? That...
What a coincidence that less than a month after I sent a final (and pointed) letter to the French ambassador and tossed out all but a few pages of the petition seeking the repatriation of Jikji, I was invited back to Cheongju. An event was due to...
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