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...South Korea's new assertiveness?and the wave of sometimes violent anti-American street protests that go along with it?represents "a wake up call for the Bush Administration," says Victor Cha, an expert on the military alliance between Seoul and Washington at Georgetown University. "Something is really wrong." What's wrong is the allies' increasingly divergent diplomatic strategies over the question of North Korea. The U.S. has 37,000 troops stationed in the South to deter the North Korean army from swarming over the 38th parallel and into Seoul, which is only about 64 kilometers from the border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Korea Asserts Itself | 12/23/2002 | See Source »

...moment persona non grata on the mainland. Asked about reports that a sit-down between Kim and Chinese leaders was imminent, Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said: "There is no such thing." "The idea that China will support North Korea whatever it does is over now," says Victor Cha, an Asia specialist at Georgetown University. Adds Kenneth Lieberthal, a University of Michigan professor who served as special assistant to President Bill Clinton and senior director for Asian affairs at the National Security Council from 1998 to 2000: "It's quite clear that the level of exasperation is high. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Feud | 12/15/2002 | See Source »

...roll show, white teenagers perform all the latest dances and are local heroes to every adolescent. Chief among these starlets is Amber Von Tussle, a snooty princess whose mom, Miss Soft Crab of 1945, pours all her ambition into Amber. Every afternoon the pouty miss must practice the cha-cha and the Mashed Potato under Mom's eagle eye. "I want you to get more close-ups on that show," Mom admonishes, "or I'm sending you to Catholic school!" Eeuuuu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Let Us "Spray" | 10/7/2002 | See Source »

Anyone who has ever felt the cool tug of uncut grass or the dewy kiss of morning earth between their toes may appreciate what Teddy means. Then again, anyone who has ever been forced into an improvised cha-cha routine by the scorching lash of steaming asphalt on their naked feet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Free Your Mind, Free Your Feet | 9/26/2002 | See Source »

...owed their four children. Then he discovered that the company had taken 34% out of four tax intercepts--money that the Internal Revenue Service, not Supportkids, had withheld from her tax refunds. He managed to get that money back, but he could not get out of his contract. Ok Cha Adams, a housewife in St. Louis, Mo., similarly agreed to turn over a third of nearly $17,000 in child-support arrears to the company. Then she learned from a Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter that it was not Supportkids but the military that had garnished her ex-husband's wages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deadbeat Profiteers | 9/2/2002 | See Source »

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