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Kennedy criticized Bush for arguing against the University of Michigan’s affirmative action policies in a government brief filed with the Supreme Court last week...
...Officers observed two individuals acting suspiciously at Weld Hall. After conducting a brief field interview, the officers sent the suspects on their...
They make trips to and from the bathroom with toothbrushes in tow, check their e-mail and stretch. As the night goes on, they take brief naps sprawled across tables in study rooms...
...South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, he cracked jokes, demonstrated proper Confucian deference to his elder counterpart and showed a clear grasp of the issues. Then came the visit by Albright, the only senior U.S. official ever to meet Kim. "I found him very much on top of his brief," Albright recalls. He was also au courant on American culture, including the Oscars...
Culture was Kim's first official portfolio. After earning a political-economy degree from Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung University, he was put in charge of arts and cultural affairs for the Central Committee of the Korean Workers' Party. He took his brief to an extreme, ordering the kidnapping of a South Korean director and his actress wife to assist in developing the North Korean film industry. When they escaped eight years later, they related that at a first meeting, Kim had asked, "What do you think of my physique? Small as a midget's dropping, aren...