Word: chun
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...prison term of up to three years. The house arrest was lifted hours after the convention ended. Even though Kim is prevented from joining the N.K.D.P., he and fellow Dissident Kim Young Sam together control a majority of party votes. In a defiant gesture aimed at South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan, the N.K.D.P. named both Kims permanent advisers to the party and passed a resolution declaring that it "will do its utmost to eliminate any obstacles" to their membership. AGREEMENTS A Hot Line for Missing Planes...
Founders Chhay Chun ’02 and Solomon Liou ’02 hope at least one million voters will rally behind George W. Bush or John F. Kerry on their website, PreVote2004.com, before election...
...Chun's world is an apolitical but noisy place where Sonic Youth and REM share the soundscape with homegrown alt-rock bands like Pangu and PK14. It's a world where doting parents indulge their spoiled children?Chun's mother takes her from Beijing to Kaifeng to mingle with SpermOva, a punk band she adores, and stays alone in a guesthouse until Chun is ready to return to Beijing four nights later...
...makes you feel you're stuck on the phone with a mopey teenager who takes herself too seriously. The book is dense with melodramatic passages such as "I wanted to say that no one could plug the hole in my heart, that it was lost, that it was lonely." Chun's characters aspire to be individuals but can hardly be distinguished from one another, and the author offers scant insight into what drives them, other than their erratic mood swings...
...despite its flaws, Beijing Doll opens a window to the seemingly aimless lives of China's urban youth. Chun doesn't fight to defend her freedom by marching on Tiananmen Square; she does it by skipping school and dyeing her hair bright red. In China today, that's what passes for rebellion...