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...Leader?” “God is Kim Il Sung. Jesus is Kim Jung Il and the Holy Spirit is the Workers’ Party,” said Kim, who is now a professor at George Mason University. Kim said North Koreans do not realize the extent of their oppression. “There are no words for human rights and freedom in North Korea,” he said at the Center for Government and International Studies. “In fact, no such terminology exists.” He cited the examples of celebratory...
...Great Arctic Grab How interesting that the front page of the Canadian edition has the U.S. flag outstanding [Oct. 1], out of all other flags, with the Canadian one being the least visible, on a piece of ice that belongs to Canada. There is no extent to America's "supremacy over the world" syndrome and the shameful lack of knowledge of your northern neighbor. How interesting that America still considers itself the belly-button of the world, after all its unsuccessful attempts to run the world its way. Marie-Andree Delisle, MONTREAL...
Minority students may even be less well-versed in the culture of their ethnic group than they are in the study of the Western canon. “During high school, I wasn’t exposed to African-American history to the extent that I would have liked,” says Welton E. Blount ’09, an African-American Linguistics concentrator with a focus on African-American studies. Coles notes that, while he was taught Charles Dickens and Emily Bronte in his high school English class, classic works by African-American writers such as Ralph Ellison...
...Gore’s predicament actually represents a transformation in how environmental action, and to a greater extent political activity, is shaped. We’re witnessing a battle between two very different camps: those who believe change must come from the hallways of D.C. and others who think the very opposite—it’s the people, en masse, who will make the difference...
...Rejecting steroids, cheating, and all that they represent would essentially be rejecting American society and all it represents. The hyper-ambitious culture that America has adopted has both good and bad aspects to it. On the positive side, to a certain extent, you have groups like us Harvard students, who (supposedly) by sheer force of will, determination, sweat, and drive, have worked our way into this grand institution. But at the other end, you have the increasingly burdensome and unyielding pressure to perform. With the difference between success and a failure—in sports at least—boiling...