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...modern U.S.-Korea relations stems from a little-known pastime called short-track speed skating. Earlier this year at Salt Lake City, the nation's top hope Kim Dong Sung was disqualified for blocking a U.S. skater. In a move that most Koreans consider fixed, the American, Apolo Anton Ohno, took the gold instead. He's since been voted the most unwelcome foreigner in a Korean poll. When Korean midfielder Ahn Jung Hwan headed the ball home in the 77th minute of the U.S.-Korea match to tie the score 1-1 and keep the country's hopes of advancement...
...Arguably, the first traveler to willingly visit?and leave?the island was Russian writer Anton Chekhov, who came in 1890 to study life in the penal colony. After finishing his book The Island?a Journey to Sakhalin, Chekhov remarked, "I have seen Ceylon, and it is heaven, and now I have seen Sakhalin, and it is hell." Despite his stinging account, the people of Sakhalin have a lasting affection for the playwright and his introduction of the island to the world. His likeness vies with Lenin's on monuments throughout Sakhalin's capital, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk...
...According to St. Martin's, "For nearly a decade, Anton La Guardia was the Middle East correspondent for the Daily Telegraph of London. In 'War Without End: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Struggle for a Promised Land' (May), La Guardia has provided a thoroughly unbiased examination of the centuries-old struggles endured by Israel and Palestine. After the tragic attacks of 9/11, most Americans have been asking, "Why do they hate us?" The answer, several centuries in the making, surrounds how the U.S. involvement in the Middle East, as a close friend of Israel and a strong business partner with...
Thomas J. Anton, founding director of Brown’s Taubman Center for Public Policy, said he has heard “no talk” of changing the Center’s name. “Mr. Taubman has been very, very supportive of our center,” Anton said...
...prison for shooting dead seven Jews as they dug trenches at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. Judge Hermann Winkler said that neither the passing of years nor Viel's exemplary life since the war lessened the gravity of the offense. Viel died in February. And Anton Malloth, a former SS guard, was jailed for life for killing two Jews at the Theresienstadt camp during the last years of the war. He beat to death one Jew who failed to report on time and shot another for stealing a cauliflower. The prosecution said that despite his advanced...