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...Song's ordeal is part of a rash of brutal incidents that have pushed school violence and gang activities to the top of the national agenda in South Korea. In a chilling report released at a police-sponsored symposium last month, high school teacher Jong Sae Yong claimed that as many as 400,000 kids?5% of the national student body?belong to loosely affiliated gangs. The gang members call themselves iljin ("top rankers") and are involved in organized bullying, extortion and sometimes sex crimes. The Education Ministry says Jong's findings are exaggerated, but officials established a task force...
...Editorials, Apr. 15). It’s disgraceful that a gaggle of student activists, using the First Amendment as a cover, would behave this way. Although it’s true that the CIA has a long and clear record of attempting assassinations, overthrowing democratically elected leaders, supporting brutal dictatorships, toturing presumed enemies, and illegally spying on American citizens, I’m certain their representatives at the Science Center had prepared a rosy, well-honed spiel that glossed over all of this...
That's about as complex as the dialogue and characters get in this chic, wanton thriller. To which Director William Friedkin might riposte, "They're called movies, you know, not chatties or peo-plies." L.A. does move, notably in a brutal, bloated car-chase sequence pilfered from Friedkin's nifty The French Connection. In his God's-eye-view shots and acrobatic love scenes, he also pays tribute to the styles of Martin Scorsese and MTV. So the villain, Counterfeiter Willem Dafoe, is no more rotten or less picturesque than the hero, William Petersen. So everybody stinks. It matters...
...little "sherry wine" and pour each of his aides a glass. Then he announced that the U.S. and U.S.S.R. would soon begin nuclear arms talks, and he and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin would hold a summit to seal the deal. That afternoon Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia on their brutal mission of suppression. End of dreams...
...want to finish and I want to feel good about it,” Rizzo said. “Last year I finished, but I felt sick afterward because it was so hot and brutal...