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...allied with the Uri Party, which won a majority in the National Assembly in last month's general elections. The party's sizeable left wing opposes Roh's decision to send 3,000 troops to Iraq by the end of June. Last week Uri Party floor leader Chun Jung Bae suggested that Korea might want to send money instead of men. "The influence of the antitroop dispatch, anti-Iraq war faction is growing," frets opposition lawmaker Won Hee Ryong, who fears a failure to send troops will erode Korea's security alliance with the U.S: "This is going...
...Currier House, Melissa May Borja ’04, Adrien C. Finlay ’03-’04, Megan J. Robertson ’04 and Chia-Jung Tsay...
...books, her next one will be on paper that's either recycled or made from "sustainable forestry practices.") You can measure it in the growing scholarly attention--the books and academic papers and conferences from Adelaide to Ottawa that explore Harry's connection to the Stoics, St. Augustine, Jung and Freud--and the renewed interest in children's literature that her books have fostered. But even those who view her with alarm or disdain pay her the same tribute as those who call her a savior. Both attest to her power over readers and the lessons she teaches through...
...Three subsequent presidential elections seemed to substantiate those hopes. The victor of the 1992 contest, Kim Young Sam, was a lifelong civilian politician, not a military surrogate. The 1997 election went to Kim Dae Jung, a lifelong dissident politician. And the 2002 election led to the inauguration of Roh, a human-rights lawyer and outspoken critic of the "old style" of South Korean cronyism...
...then we might think back and recognize that there had been warning signs of the impending breakdown. So it is with South Korea's democratic system: signs of trouble were there, whether or not we cared to take them seriously. We might now remember how former President Kim Dae Jung?that avowed champion of openness, law and democracy?launched tax probes against local media, a move many saw as an attempt to intimidate publications that criticized his policies. (In 1999, the International Press Institute in Vienna even sent the future Nobel Laureate a letter begging him to desist from...