Word: kils
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...special work detail” makes you laugh, Dorm Crew’s shout-out in “An Expensive Education” is imbued with a similar significance. While the elite are out swilling Bloody Marys for Sunday brunch at Deadalus, international students are swishing Mur-Kil down their shower drains. “The introductory meeting looked like an abbreviated European Union of reluctant janitors. A Scottish piano virtuoso, two Irishmen, half a dozen girls from Eastern Europe who were either short and stout like potato balls or tall and thin like dune grass on the Baltic...
...some it will be their first time holding the end of a broom, and after several exhausting days, many newcomers question their judgment at selecting such physically demanding work. Inevitably, some will glance down at their yellow sponge and bottle of Mur-Kil cleaner, and back up to the toilet that they have hunched over to scrub to perfection. One thought most often brings about this moment’s hesitation: How could a Harvard student like me end up in a demeaning job like this? I’m too good for this...
Snapping on her rubber gloves—the job would be “pretty gross” without them, she admits—she sprays on Mur-Kil (Dorm Crew’s disinfectant of choice), dips the sponge in the bowl, and gives the porcelain a scrub, finishing up with a last swipe, rinse, and flush. Although she has just achieved in five minutes what some of her accomplished fellow classmates will go four years without doing, she waxes philosophical about the experience...
...maintain the cold war mentality? Please let Koreans on both sides approach one another amiably as one people, for peaceful reunification through the process of mutual understanding and respect. Everyone ought to be excited about the progress that both sides have made in the past few years. (The Rev.) Kil Sang Yoon Moreno Valley...
...Scholar Tsche Chong Kil is found dead at NIS (then called the Korean Central Intelligence Agency) headquarters. Agents say he jumped from a seventh-floor window after confessing to spying for North Korea...