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【推荐3】Young people are losing faith in an elitist education system. “If you don’t have the ability then blame your parents,” wrote Jung Yoo-ra on social media in 2014, after being accepted into a famous university. Her mother, it turns out, had gone to great lengths to secure a spot for her, persuading Ehwa Women’s University to alter its admissions policy in a manner tailor-made for Ms. Jung.

Last month a court ruled that the nine people involved in this deception had fundamentally shaken the “values of fairness of our society”. Above all, the “feelings of emptiness and betrayal they caused in hardworking students” could not be excused.

University was once seen as a source of social mobility in South Korea. But so important is the right degree to a student’s prospects in life that rich families began spending heavily on coaching to improve their children’s chances, leaving poorer families behind.

By 2007 over three-quarters of students were receiving some form of private tuition, maximizing the three necessities to win a place at a good university: “father’s wealth, mother’s information, child’s diligence”.

Many South Koreans believe that the rich and influential do not just spend more on education, they also manipulate the system, as Ms. Jung’s mother, a close friend of the previous president, did so spectacularly.

According to the Pew Research Centre, a think-tank, only a fifth of those aged 18-33 believe that working hard brings success. An ever-growing dictionary of slang proves the perception: people speak of using “back” (backing, or connections) to get jobs; when Ms. Jung refused to return to South Korea to face charges related to her university admission, the local press described it as a “gold-spoon escape”.

【推荐1】There were many institutions in the city where he could find lodging and food in the name of charity. But Soapy was too proud to receive the gifts of charity. He did not enjoy having to discuss his situation and private affairs with strangers. In Soapy’s mind, being a guest of the law was a much better option.

Soapy, having decided to go to the Island, set about accomplishing his goal immediately. There were many easy ways of moving toward his desire.

At a corner of Sixth Avenue was a shop with a wide glass window. Soapy took a stone and threw it through a show window. People came running around the corner. A cop was the first among them. Soapy stood still, with his hands in his pockets and smiled at the cop. “It was me,” said Soapy, still smiling.

The cop ignored Soapy completely. Men who break windows do not stay around to turn themselves in. They run as fast as they can. The cop saw a man further along the street, running. He ran after him. Soapy failed, sick at heart.

When he noticed a cop standing in front of a theater, Soapy decided to show the cop some “disorderly behaviors”. On the sidewalk, Soapy began to scream at the top of his lungs. To his surprise, the cop turned his back and said to a passerby, “noisy, but no harm!” The wind was gettingcold. Soapy buttoned up his thin coat and walked away with a sad face.

Soapy walked slowly away. He had failed two times.

At last Soapy stepped before an old church on a quiet corner, where the organist played a Sunday anthem. Through the window a soft light glowed. The moon was above; vehicles and pedestrians were few; sparrows twittered sleepily under the roof. The influences of the music and the old church aroused a sudden and wonderful impulse in Soapy’s soul, driving him to battle with his desperate fate. He would make a man of himself again.

Soapy felt a hand on his arm.

“What are you doing here?” A cop asked.

“Nothing.”

“Then come along!” said the policeman.

“Three months on the island,” said the Judge the next morning.

【推荐2】If you tried to give rock ‘n’ roll another name, you might have called it Chuck Berry. Chuck Berry was 29 years old in 1955. He’d been playing mostly blues and R8B standards in a St. Louis club for several years. But he had started writing his own songs, combining elements of white country music. On a Friday night in May, 1955, he drove up to Chicago to catch a show by the blues great Muddy Waters. After the performance, he casually asked him, “How do you get in touch with a record company?”

“Why don’t you go and see Leonard Chess on 47th?” Muddy Waters replied.

So early Monday morning, Berry went to Chess Records and positioned himself in a store across the street. When Leonard Chess arrived, Berry ran over and made a pitch. Chess was impressed by the young man’s self-confidence and told him to come back with a tape of his own material, Berry returned the following week, bringing with him the other members of the club and four new songs.

“And we set the band up, and we played all four of them,” Berry said. “We don't know what they were saying, but they listened.”

Berry thought they were listening to “Wee Wee Hours”, a blues song. After all, Chess Records was known around Chicago as a blues label. But Leonard Chess was fascinated by "Ida Mae" that Berry had adapted from a traditional country tune called “Ida Red”.

Chess was sure the new song could be a hit, but he didn’t like the name. It was too rural (土气的).But nobody could think of a name. They looked around and saw a shoe box with “Maybellene” printed on it. Leonard Chess said, “Why don't we name it ‘Maybellene’?”

“Maybellene” quickly rose to No. l on the R&B chart. Two weeks later, it hit No. 5 on the all-important pop chart. In the years following “Maybellene”, Chuck Berry produced an astonishing string of hits, such as “Roll Over Beethoven” “School Days” and “Sweet Little Sixteen”

In 1972, Chuck Berry finally scored a number-one hit on the pop chart with an even more rural name: “My Ding-A-Ling”.

【推荐1】Growing up, playing hockey with her brothers and the boys in the area, Rhéaume learned pretty quickly that, despite her abilities, she was often cut from teams simply because she was a girl. Although it was frustrating for the youngster, she was not deterred. She continued to work hard and develop her skills to prove she could compete with the boys.

It didn’t take long for her to make a name for herself. In 1984, she became the first girl to play in the famed Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament.

When the Tampa Bay Lightning, a National Hockey League (NHL) team came calling the following year, it was an opportunity Rhéaume could not pass up. When Rhéaume arrived in Tampa Bay, she remembers there was a big bouquet of flowers waiting for her in her dressing room, along with a card. “It was from a radio station in Montreal and the card said go further, good luck to you, we’re all behind you and you’re not alone,” she said. “When I got that, I realized a lot of people were pulling for me to be successful.” It was at that point that the significance of the game began to dawn on her.

When Rhéaume joined the Lightning for a game, on September 23,1992, she became the first woman to play in the NHL. While it might have felt like just another game for Rhéaume in the moment, in the years that have followed, she has realized it was so much more. “I didn’t know that it would inspire so many people,” she said. “It was more later in my life that I realized it was a big deal and I did impact people with my story.”

Although her experience with the NHL was brief, Rhéaume inspired countless girls to pursue their hockey dreams. Almost twenty-eight years later, and she’s still doing exactly that. Today, Rhéaume is the head coach of the12U Little Caesars Girls in Detroit. “I always tell my players to follow their dreams no matter what the dream is and to believe in themselves,” Rhéaume said. “Hard work and never giving up is what can make you succeed.”