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...What Roh was actually guilty of may simply be political inexperience and ineptitude. Prior to becoming President he served as Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries?a position that gave him scant preparation for running the country. Small wonder that he has committed a string of political and diplomatic faux pas that have eroded his popularity during his 13 months as President. Roh has to take a large measure of blame for the partisan hostility that has poisoned South Korean politics in the past year. Most damaging for Roh, a self-declared corruption fighter, were the campaign-finance scandals involving...
...have a duty to help those at lesser schools—like Columbia and Yale—break free from social life in the social slow lane and bring them up to speed on the superhighway of cool. Clubs, bars, movies, moving—all passé, bona fide faux pas in 21st-century etiquette. It seems as though everyone has forgotten what it means to “have fun.” While students at Dartmouth, Columbia, even Yale (if one can even call them students) drink beer and frequent parties, we ask of them: have you ever...
...Saturday morning earlier this month, a group of Harvard students met at a local church to help adopted Chinese children fashion panda masks out of paper plates, cotton balls and pieces of black, faux...
...real dessert. Chocolate fulfillment is only further prolonged by the appearance of Chef Le Pet Omaine, our eccentric guide. This off-the-wall stereotype-a-minute French chef—complete with wild gesticulations and exclamations of “phooey” delivered in his faux-French accent—causes the crowd of British tourists and local foodies to guffaw and titter. The march through Prudential Center to the Top of the Hub with Chef Le Pet Omaine waving his wooden ladle at the front is a scene taken straight from Disney World—over...
...Asian fashion landscape for 2004 can be summed up in one word, it would be "contrast." A recent fashion week in Hong Kong saw models strutting down the catwalk in items such as a sheer hot pink scarf with gray suit lapels stitched on to form a faux collar (courtesy of And Then ...), a knit cap festooned with baby toys (Aeju), and an ensemble made up of a thick knit wool skirt and a luridly turquoise silk top (Tell U What...