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...That fear is palpable on the streets of Seoul. South Koreans have begun to scale back. Song Jae Hyun, a vegetable seller at central Seoul's Nandaemun market, sells his broccoli and bell peppers for only about 50 cents apiece, much cheaper than in many of the grocery stores, but his stall still sees few customers. "People are spending less money for sure," he says, shaking his head. "One year ago, there would be double the amount of people here. These are terrible times." At a nearby restaurant, only four of the 16 tables are occupied at dinner time. "Everyone...
...Although the black community has appropriated Obama as a black hero, this does not mean that he cannot be an American hero as well. The two have been considered mutually exclusive for so long that I am afraid people have begun to believe it. But did the fact that Martin Luther King Jr. was a black hero preclude him from being an American hero? Did his achievements as a man mean something only because he was a black man? Are our goals as Americans really so different that a black hero cannot promote the same values as an American hero...
...sudden uptick in tension comes at a moment when Syria had begun to appear as one of the bright spots in a troubled region. U.S. officials had acknowledged that Syria had begun to stem the flow of insurgents into Iraq, while last spring, Damascus revealed that it had been holding indirect peace talks with Israel. President Assad, moreover, had said peace in the Middle East was possible within two years, if only the U.S. would sponsor direct talks, and hopes were high that the incoming Obama Administration would do just that...
Cambridge city officials and organizations have only just begun to digest and grapple with last month’s initial round of state budget cuts, but already, the specter of further cuts—perhaps as early as February—is looming overhead...
...mantra of “Yes We Can” referred only to trouncing Sen. John McCain. He meant that, yes, we can—if you’ll forgive the talking point—bring change to government. That work hasn’t even begun yet, and its success is far from certain. Last Tuesday was never going to fix the problems of the past eight years, but most of us seem to equate his victory with real change just the same...