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...father of homespun African socialism, he has been one of the Third World's most prominent statesmen. But to the more than 20 million people of Tanzania, the nation he founded, Julius Kambarage Nyerere, 63, is best known simply as Mwalimu, Ki-swahili for "teacher." Although he has failed during his 24 years in power to create the prosperous, egalitarian society that he once envisioned, his policies will continue to shape the country--and the continent--for decades. This month Nyerere is scheduled to become one of the few African rulers ever to relinquish power voluntarily...
...Still, unification pots could become a scarce commodity. After meeting in Washington with members of Bush's national security team last week, South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki Moon said economic engagement with the North would be reduced to a "humanitarian level" until the nuclear question is resolved. (The U.S. is also continuing food aid to starving North Koreans, despite the crisis.) But the policy shift?which would have been a major one?was fleeting. A day later, the South Korean Unification Ministry official in charge of the Kaesong project, Cho Myung Kyun, seemed to contradict Ban, saying "no particular...
...buildings and antiseptic new ones. In short, these are movies tailor-made for societies hurtling into an uncertain future, trailing the baggage of a traditional past. South Korea's most original offering?A Tale of Two Sisters by director Kim Ji Woon?is a case in point. Oh Ki Min, the movie's producer, describes this saga of domestic murder and madness as "a Korean version of American Beauty ... a tale of middle-class family dysfunctionality for a country still under the yoke of Confucian patriarchy." Made for just $3.7 million, the film drew more viewers last year than...
...Standing beside Powell last week, Foreign Minister Ban Ki Moon insisted his government had nothing to hide. "We're handling this in a transparent manner," he said. Officials and lawmakers in Seoul are seething over the international scrutiny, saying their country is the victim of a double standard because their ancient rival Japan is allowed to enrich uranium and separate plutonium to run reactors. "Every nation that pursues the full use of nuclear technology inevitably gets close to weapons technology," says Kim Tae Woo, a nuclear analyst at the government-run Korea Institute for Defense Analyses. "So what is wrong...
...South Korean director Kim Ki-duk often deals in beautiful surfaces and tarnished souls. His 3-Iron is about a housebreaker (Jae Hee) who slips into people's flats when they are away on vacation. Instead of burglarizing the place, he does ironing and fixes small appliances. (Can we hire him as our house-sitter?) On one of his forays he meets a lovely woman (Lee Seung-yun), the abused wife of a golf-mad businessman. A fable of seduction and soul-mating, violence and revenge, plays out in this nearly wordless film that offers a modern gloss...