"You're right, " said Mr. Ma, "you really can't play that!"

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When Yo-Yo Ma took his first cello lesson, there wasn't a chair short enough for him, so he sat on three phone books instead.

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We do wish Dolby Digital Plus and DTS-HD MA would've been included, but hey you can't have everything -- or maybe even old school Dolby Digital and DTS, so we could really appreciate the difference.

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But China's Assistant Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu told the same briefing that the issue of North Korea and its satellite launch wouldn't be on the agenda at the global nuclear-security summit in Seoul next week.

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Jen Kim and Jason Ma, U.S.-born children of Korean immigrants who married last year, weren't looking for a fellow Korean-American to wed when they met in New York five years ago.

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