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...reason why Korea's economy, amid global recession, is currently outperforming nearly every other country's in the world. Churning out everything from ships to semiconductors, Korea emerged as an export powerhouse during the last decade?it was international trade that allowed the country to bounce back from a brush with disaster during the Asia crisis four years ago. In the current downturn, things are different. With demand from the U.S. skidding, Korea has not only not tanked; it has, in fact, escaped recession altogether by tapping growth from an uncharacteristic conduit: domestic consumption...
...unprecedented support he is receiving from Americans. If his latest allegations of an "axis of evil" were not so serious, they would be laughable. Iran and Iraq are sworn enemies, and North Korea has very little to do with either of them. Bush's speechwriter obviously needs to brush up his understanding of geopolitics. IAN COLTERJOHN Agassiz...
Therapists say ancient feuds between adult siblings can flare up like brush fires when their parents die. The game of who-gets-what can get out of hand when parents are no longer around to officiate and keep the peace. "Things left over from childhood get amplified," says Michael Zentman, director of the postdoctoral program for marriage and family therapy at Adelphi University in Garden City, N.Y. "Every time a family moves into another phase of life, it creates a lot of stress on family members, and for them to have to work on the nuts and bolts of dividing...
...began driver’s ed at the Grand Prix Raceway. Because of my short stature, my mom controlled the pedal while I, barely visible, clutched the wheel as the racecar sputtered and jerked along at an exhilarating 10 miles per hour. The following year I had my first brush with television fame—and with a pre-”Felicity” Keri Russell—as I sat in on a taping of “The Mickey Mouse Club.” The festivities at my ninth birthday party included a Polynesian luau...
...proposed changes, Summers’ attack on tenure is possibly the most radical. Historically cloaked in confidentiality, the tenure process has survived centuries of criticism and, most recently, legal action. Harvard’s lawyers have succeeded in keeping the process secret after a close brush with a pesky request for evidence in a lawsuit against the University. And most tenured Faculty would say it’s better that way. Loker Professor of English Robert J. Kiely, a 25-plus year veteran of the English department, gives a quasi-rousing justification of the current process...