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...South Korea's foreign allies, including the U.S. government, are bravely pretending that the impeachment drama unfolding in Seoul is unexceptional and is perhaps even proof of South Korea's "strong, vibrant democracy." Let's not kid ourselves. By voting to strip President Roh of power and leaving it to the country's Constitutional Court to determine his ultimate political fate, South Korea's National Assembly has demonstrated the frightful weakness of the country's purported democracy?and has dealt that already frail structure another grave blow from which it is not yet clear it can recover...
...think it all starts in recruiting,” said Harvard coach Katey Stone. “You recruit the right kind of kid—the kid with great character and attitude and strong work ethic...
...started playing hockey—me, Grant and a couple other kids in the neighborhood—and we all kept playing,” Reese said. “There’s Grant and I, and another kid in the national program...
...places who share only a free time slot on Tuesdays at 3 p.m. in common, and yet it isn’t just the stereotypes that remain a constant from one person’s section rollcall to the next. Sure, I don’t really know that kid in my roommate’s class that she is forever complaining/raving about, but I certainly know of him—name, concentration, thoughts on Kant as argued in that Social Analysis class sophomore year. And for such enigmatic figures to disappear at the end of the semester and then...
...1790s a young French boy named Jean-Francois Champollion, the son of a bookseller, became obsessed with ancient languages--not only Latin and Greek but also Hebrew, Arabic, Persian and Chaldean. According to The Linguist and the Emperor (Ballantine; 271 pages), by Daniel Meyerson, Champollion was a dreamy, solitary kid who mouthed off in class, but as a schoolboy, he assembled a 2,000-page dictionary of Coptic, an ancient Egyptian language. Luckily for him, French soldiers in Egypt soon discovered the Rosetta stone, a chunk of gray and pink rock with the same text written on it in both...