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...rivals are hoping that the BBK scandal could help swing undecided voters away from him; according to the Korea Times, as of last week one-quarter of voters still hadn't made up their minds. Still, many observers are skeptical that the National Assembly investigation, even with such bombshell timing, will have much of an effect on the vote. "I don't think it will change the outcome of the election," says Paik Haksoon, a senior fellow at the Sejong Institute, a Seoul-based think tank. However, he adds, "it could lower support for Lee significantly." Assuming Lee wins...
...Republican candidates, he is also the one who takes the economic anxieties of the lower middle class most seriously. When the Republicans met in Dearborn, Mich., to debate the economy, most of the candidates maintained that times were good and that people who thought otherwise just hadn't seen the statistics...
...typical kind of interview. At the end of the interview, he says, "Grandma, is there anything you want to tell me that you haven't told me before?? She said, "Well, I want you to know that when I was a kid, I was molested by my uncle." She hadn't told anybody in the family about that. It's an opportunity to kind of clear the slate and put the truth out on the table. I know it was very important to her and to her whole family, the whole interview experience. In fact, she invited StoryCorps...
...precursor to "World War III." It was a statement that was both outrageous in its extravagance and very strange. Bush acknowledged that he had first heard in August that a new intelligence analysis of Iran's nuclear-bomb program was imminent, but - and here comes the strange part - he hadn't bothered to ask the Director of National Intelligence, Mike McConnell, what it might contain. "If that's true," Senator Joe Biden opined soon after, "then this is ... one of the most incompetent Presidents in modern American history...
...footnotes. He worked many of them, largely scientific explanations, into the main text, making the book a translator's nightmare. "Later, when the book was being translated into English, I saw a sample," he says. "It was excellent, but I didn't recognize my voice. Until then I hadn't realized I had a voice! So I did 30 pages myself and sent it to the [Flemish government] agency that subsidizes translations. Their outside reviewer thought my English was better than my Dutch...