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...scandal has already badly bruised President Kim: despite his announcement of a nationwide crackdown on organized crime, his party got thrashed in critical October by-elections. Newspapers and opposition politicians have hinted for months?without providing evidence?that Yeo was trying to bribe pols in the President's party to help a businessman from Cholla province, Kim's home region. Yeo was convicted a decade ago of running the biggest gang in the Cholla city of Kwangju...
...lawmaker, AIDS has killed dozens of Members of Parliament in the past decade. And Malawi's government has begun to move. President Bakili Muluzi incorporates AIDS education into every public rally. In 1999 he launched a five-year plan to fight the disease, and last July he ordered a crackdown on prostitution (though the government is now thinking of legalizing it). At the least, his awareness campaign appears to be working: 90% of Malawians know about the dangers of AIDS. But that knowledge comes too late for the estimated 8% of HIV-positive citizens--800,000 people...
...Washington's standing in the Arab world took a beating during the Palestinian uprising of the past five months. How will Powell manage to win Arab support in that light, particularly if Arab regimes are expecting an even harsher crackdown from Sharon...
Small-scale changes to the College's rules--like administrators' recent decision to ban kegs at future Harvard-Yale football games--do not merit much attention as indicators of a larger ideological crackdown, Lewis argues...
...four years before Scott Krueger drank himself to death at an MIT fraternity--the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researcher's landmark College Alcohol Study showed binge drinking on college campuses was far more extensive than anyone believed and initiated a nationwide crackdown on student binge drinking...