Word: kim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Meanwhile, the country's leader, Kim Jong Il, exhorts his people to persevere in their "arduous march," allowing for no discussion of the possibility that years of Stalinist economic policies may have caused the famine. Yet at the same time, there is acknowledgment that something dramatic must happen. Says relief official Jong Yun Hyong: "We know we can't rely on emergency aid forever." Even to march in place, you need food...
...Kim Seng drew himself as a skeleton. He would be about 25 today. As a boy of 10, he had dark, serious eyes and large ears that gave his face a scholarly look. His father, a doctor, had been executed by a firing squad because he was an intellectual and thus threatened Pol Pot's primitivist ideology. People who wore glasses also were killed because it was assumed they could read...
...Kim's co-workers from day camp, Pierce, hosted the bash. Pierce is of legal drinking age, but most of the guests were entering their first years of college. People were friendly enough as I mingled, especially since I came with Kim. However, each time the conversation turned to my schooling, there was a change. No longer was I just one more girl...
...enough beer, assured me: "even though you go to Harvard, you can still drink." Thanks. His phraseology interested me because it summed up my existence among this crowd. It was fine that I was visiting, but I was an alien in their midst. Had I met these people without Kim's introduction, I would have been relegated to the corner...
Within the Kim-Anne-Missy trio, I have changed because of my college label and all that it implies. Inside I am also different from the first-year who matriculated last fall, but that is almost irrelevant. For those blinded by the glitz of the Harvard name, my individuality is insignificant. It upsets me that my college affiliation is a social Great Barrier Reef and that our tight trio is evolving in three different directions, but we still have a bond. We will always have Israel, and we will always have one another. "In my life, I love you more...