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...Having failed to save it, Seoul is planning to restore the monument as quickly as possible: an official at the Cultural Heritage Administration told media it would take about three years and $21 million to rebuild the gate. President-elect Lee Myung Bak has proposed that citizens kick in money for the construction. But until the Namdaemun Gate is rebuilt, its blackened pedestal will remain a reminder of the fragility of Korea's architectural legacy - and a litmus test of just how serious the 5,000-year-old culture is about preserving its remaining historical landmarks...
...while away the time; there isn’t much intellectual investment in sports bloopers, say, or Mike Huckabee’s latest ‘is he joking?’ moment. Of late, however, two videos in particular have me wondering whether this online equivalent of kick-the-can might actually have some cataclysmic import on how we conceive of our idols: in this case, the charming, all-American pair of Tom Cruise and William F. Buckley...
...with topics from misogynist swear words to the gap between baby-boom and Gen-X feminists with a gender-consciousness that's unashamed but unafraid to make fun of itself. (In one flashback, teenage Liz sues her high school to become placekicker on the football team; she flubs a kick and cheers, "Yeah! Feminism!") Liz isn't powerful enough to be in a mafia yet, but in 10 years she might join one. Or change...
...three sections of Northeastern fans unleashed boos and incoherent chants on the whole arena each time the kids pointed to the Veritas logo and smirked, something occurred to me: shouldn’t actual Harvard students be the ones getting a kick out of antagonizing the opposing team’s fans? At the Beanpot no less...
...outreach program to skeptical Republicans was kick-started before Super Tuesday, as the campaign gathered endorsements from high-profile conservatives like Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma; Ted Olson, the former Solicitor General who argued Bush v. Gore successfully before the Supreme Court; Jack Kemp; and former Texas Senator Phil Gramm...