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South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun will make his first trip to America next week. It's not likely to be a happy introduction to the joys of Stateside travel. The highlight of his itinerary is a summit with President George W. Bush, during which they must try to hammer out a mutually agreeable strategy for defusing the North Korean nuclear threat. Although Roh and Bush may get along fine personally?both are plainspoken men who quickly get to the point?they are poles apart on how to convince North Korea to scrap its nuclear program...
When he's not making sugary chinese New Year trifles with Andy Lau, overemployed Hong Kong director Johnnie To prefers life on the city's cinematic mean streets. His 1999 film The Mission was a highlight of the low-life genre, a noirish masterpiece that lionized criminals and their ritualized codes of honor. But even while flirting with darkness, To has sought out the heroic in his antiheroes, never giving into nihilism. Redeemable bad guys will always be better for the box office...
...story behind Epstein’s deep connection with Harvard parallels his giving history, with close friendships with professors and administrators spanning the past 10 years. As an individual with no formal connection to the University, save for his donations, his Harvard ties highlight the meeting between the world of minds in the academy and the world of wallets in the business arena...
...will ever get. Menem, one of the first President Bush's favorite Latin American leaders, has a more positive spin. "I left a functioning, growing economy," he insisted to TIME. "Our current crisis simply makes people remember how good things were when I was President." And as if to highlight his revived potency, the sports-car enthusiast announced last week that he and his wife, Chilean TV celebrity Cecilia Bolocco, 37, are expecting their first child. Said Menem: "I always win." --By Tim Padgett. With reporting by Uki Goni/Buenos Aires
...workouts under his belt, Morris made his first foray into big-time college football by playing in the Shrine Bowl in San Francisco. Under the gaze of dozens of scouts on hand to see this collegiate all-star game, Morris made a nice splash with impressive route-running and highlight-reel catches...