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...Hyok knows big changes are coming to this backward North Korean city situated on the banks of the Yalu River across from China. He has heard that Kim Jong Il, North Korea's enigmatic dictator, intends to turn Sinuiju into a special economic zone. Li and the 4,000 other employees of Sinuiju Shoe Factory are hopeful that the promised boost in commercial activity will improve their meager lot. "This is all for the Korean people," Li says, standing among middle-aged women piecing together black and white sneakers on noisy sewing machines. "It makes the Korean people richer, with...
...Crimson is right that Harvard’s new corroboration rule is a huge step backward (Editorial, “Equal Under Law,” Sept. 20). This absurd policy mimics se xist corroboration laws that were in place until the 1970s when the women’s movement successfully fought for reform. The Crimson is also correct when it characterizes Harvard’s new policy as evidence the College is turning a blind eye to the serious problem of sexual violence on campus—a problem that disproportionately affects women students...
Harvard was correct that its old system was failing—a failure that took years of lobbying for Harvard to recognize. The new policy, however, takes a step backward and instead reduces the responsibilities of the school in responding to sexual assault by making it more difficult to bring cases before the Ad Board. Rather than making the disciplinary process harder for victims, Harvard should enable itself to deal with all sexual assault cases. Instead of throwing up its hands when victims of sexual assault seek help, Harvard should establish a separate board to hear these painful and complex...
...original X rays and took them to a medical examiner, a radiologist and a neurologist. The experts quickly spotted more clues. Abnormalities in the thin bones above Tut's eye sockets may be the kind of fractures that can occur when the head strikes the ground during a backward fall and the brain snaps forward. What's more, the vertebrae in Tut's neck were fused--a sign of a musculoskeletal malformation called Klippel-Feil syndrome. People with Klippel-Feil cannot turn their heads without moving the entire torso, an infirmity that's impossible to hide and makes the sufferer...
...giant leap backward for pop stars in space last week when the Russian space agency denied 'N Sync member LANCE BASS a place on its October mission. The agency raised the velvet rope after a consortium of Bass backers failed to cough up the $20 million cover charge required for entry onto the Soyuz space capsule. Bass had been training in Moscow and Houston, completing maneuvers in zero gravity and learning Russian, but his backers, including a production company hoping to film a documentary of the trip, missed several payment deadlines. Bass's seat will not go empty...