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...entirely sure whom the Harvard College Democrats purport to represent these days, but it’s not Democrats, and most certainly not the nation so many of its members aspire to govern...

Author: By Jason T. Sauer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Don't Play Politics | 10/1/2001 | See Source »

...world with such unperturbed sang-froid that the most outrageous and absolutely surreal events seen like common place occurrences. The passive and directionless narrator of each story lacks any roots or real home. He is a loner whose life is dictated by chance and who passively allows fate to govern his existence. A motley collection of three-legged dogs, mutated puppies, deformed human beings, psychopaths, overgrown slugs, drug addicts, women who practice black magic and dangerous roommates move in and out of his life, creating mayhem. Yet through it all the narrator remains unflappable...

Author: By Natalia H.J. Naish, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: It's A Dog-Eat-Dog World | 9/20/2001 | See Source »

...fair Cambridge, Harvard students have maintained a fashionable, post-patriotic pose that regards national pride with suspicion or outright disgust. The Harvard-spawned ruling class, fanning out across New York and Washington and Hollywood each year, often seems to disdain the people and the nation that it aspires to govern...

Author: By Ross G. Douthat, | Title: The Moment of Truth | 9/19/2001 | See Source »

...understanding of the inner Koizumi is crucial: his chances of resuscitating the world's second-largest economy may depend on which aspects of his complicated character govern his decisions and actions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan's Destroyer | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...Decades later, Kang saw a less laudable side. During the 1997 presidential campaign, Kim knew he couldn't win enough seats to govern because the bulk of his support was in Cholla. So he joined with ultra-conservative Kim Jong Pil, the United Liberal Democrats party leader who bolted from the ruling coalition last week. Many saw it as a pact with the devil. In 1961, J.P. (as he is known) had set up the notorious Korean Central Intelligence Agency, which harassed the future President and regularly interrogated and tortured his aides. (J.P. was Prime Minister when Kim was kidnapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diminished Icon | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

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