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...Studying Kim Jong Il requires, as one of the few who made a living at it once declared, "a certain defective personality type." Said retired U.S. diplomat Daniel Jackson, "Not only do you have to enjoy banging your head against a wall, you have to feel vaguely guilty about it on those rare occasions when you don't, in fact, have a headache." With the dramatic, surprise trip by U.S. envoy Christopher Hill to Pyongyang after the regime's promise about nuclear inspection - all part of a recent slew of backing-and-forthing between the Hermit Kingdom and the rest...
...fanfare that it would, in fact, do what it agreed to do back in February at the so called Six Party Talks in Beijing: allow inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency to monitor the shutdown of the controversial Yongbyon reactor. That has helped put the optimists in the Kim club in the ascendant. Indeed, Hill's trip to Pyongyang on Thursday, the first high-level mission by a U.S. official there in more than four years, seemed designed to take advantage of the positive opening. A statement from Hill read, "It is critical for the six parties to make...
...accomplices in many of his projects, say whenever Ravishankara had an idea, he made it happen. “Harvard was tough but he’s a stronger person for having gone through it,” Dern says. —Staff writer Victoria Kim can be reached at vkim@fas.harvard.edu...
...Breath. There are two Korean films among the 21 in competition for the Palme d'Or, and both have a scene in which an obsessive woman visits a killer in jail and expresses her sympathy for him. The first and lesser of the pair is from Kim Ki-duk, who came to international prominence with The Isle (or, as aficionados describe it, the erotic fish-hook movie) and has ben paring down his style ever since, in Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall and Spring Again and the near-wordless 3-Iron. His new film is more conventional, not so rewarding. Yeon...
...announce new masters in early- to mid-June, according to Associate Dean for Residential Life Suzy M. Nelson, who also noted the possibility of appointing interim replacements.Other members of the House community echoed Shahi’s concern over the lack of student input. Residential tutor Christopher C. Kim ’98 noted the change in student involvement between this year’s process and the search for new House masters at Winthrop, Currier, and Cabot that took place in 2003. During that search, each House formed advisory committees made up of resident tutors, students, and Senior Common...