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...Japanese are worried that an attempt to curb Chongryun might spark violent reprisals, even sabotage. At the least, they expect angry street protests charging that Japan is once again oppressing Koreans -- an accusation that stings because many of the 1.5 million Koreans in Japan at the end of World War II were conscripted laborers, and those who stayed still suffer discrimination. In the 1950s and '60s, many believed that Kim Il Sung's North Korea, which was faring better than the chaotic South, was the best bet for Korea's future. About 40% of the 600,000 Koreans who stayed...
...most dramatic move yet in a determined -- and some say increasingly desperate -- effort by governments around the world to curb the spread of software piracy. The unauthorized copying of computer programs by American businesses alone deprived software publishers of $1.6 billion last year, a figure that swells to nearly $7.5 billion when overseas markets are included. "Industry's loss on a global basis is staggering," says Ken Wasch, head of the U.S. Software Publishers Association...
...museum's problems came to light in early November when a Faculty committee report recommended that the museum drastically cut its staff and reduce expenditures for public exhibitions. The changes were necessary to curb the museum's approximately $1 million deficit, the report said...
...Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles lays off eight staff members at Harvard's Semitic Museum in an attempt to curb the musuem's $1 million deficit. The layoffs set off a string of attacks by staff members and financial supporters of the museum against the administration and museum director Dorot Professor of Archaeology Lawrence E. Stager. A staff of two is later rehired...
...Army's efforts to curb such violence -- through counseling and other help -- are rarely mandatory. That, says the study, leads to two critical failings: few soldiers take advantage of the help, and the worst abusers don't participate. Researcher Peter Neidig, whose company, Behavioral Science Associates in Stony Brook, New York, is conducting the Army survey, believes similar levels of domestic abuse exist in the other services. While Neidig believes the Army is ahead of the civilian world in confronting the issue, Army officials admit they are only starting to understand the extent of the problem. "We were being very...