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...Jackie Jung, Bell Service public relations manager, said the computer damage occurred at 3:30 p.m. and was repaired within six minutes After the repair, however, a glut of outgoing phone calls overloaded the computer's switchboard and prevented the phone company from restoring full service for an hour and a half...
...Especially in a busy area like Cambridge," Jung said, "people's first reaction to a loss of phone service is to continuously try to make calls. Our equipment is made to handle a 'normal' capacity and cannot transfer all the additional calls...
Rose is hard on Dickens for his responsibility in this, the most modern of the bad marriages described in Parallel Lives. Her conclusion: "It is a story of survival merely and proves only, as Jung said about his own reprehensible behavior to a young woman, that sometimes it is necessary to be unworthy in order to continue living...
...decision to give South Korean dissident Kim Dae Jung a fellowship last spring from the prestigious fellows program at Harvard's Center for International Affairs is another chapter in the controversial relationship that Harvard has had with South Korea Most memorably, the University accepted a $1 million dollar contribution from a South Korean government organization which prompted a debate about whether it was proper to take money from the authoritarian regime...
...Korea there is a joke about Kim Dae Jung. It says that as difficult as it is to save a life, in Kim's case it is difficult to die. Sitting in his small office on the fourth floor of Harvard's Center for International Affairs, Kim chuckles as he explains the joke. There have been several serious attempts on his life since he became an opposition leader and advocate of democracy in South Korean politics in the 1960s...