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...always knew there was a reason I don't like Kim Jong Il. It's not his pursuit of nuclear weapons. O.K., it's partly his pursuit of nuclear weapons, but hey, if you're a despot with a spare centrifuge and a free mountain, knock yourself out. The other part is, well, I just don't like his face. There's a visible smugness atop the looniness that seems to cry out for a vigorous slapping...
...proud of my reason for wanting to slap Kim Jong Il. Shouldn't we be beyond just not liking someone's face? I always thought so, but recently the folks at Princeton University reassured me that, nope, it's perfectly fine and in fact entirely human. A study by psychologist Alex Todorov shows that we form opinions about a person with a 100-millisecond glance at the face alone. What's more, you can't even blame your higher brain for such bias. The impulse seems to arise in the primitive amygdala. If your prefrontal cortex is your summa...
...also curious as to why the editorial staff felt it was necessary to mention Breeden’s Oct. 11 cartoon (with Kim Jong Il’s hair depicted as a mushroom cloud) when the editors’ note itself states that this image was employed by at least four different artists. Breeden’s only crime is that in a select few of her pieces she went for an obvious gag, an offense quite common in editorial cartooning, worthy of a reprimand, at most, but certainly not a pink slip...
...editors: I was disappointed and disturbed to read Kyle A. de Beausset’s comment (“Adopt a Conscience,” Oct. 31). When I was eight years old my parents adopted my sister, Kim, who was three months old at the time, from Korea. Within two years we learned that she had cerebral palsy and mental retardation. Thanks to many years of advocacy by my mom, great public school programs, and many wonderful people, Kim now has a terrific situation living in a group home in Wellesley. She works at a retail store...
...will China and South Korea really maintain pressure on the North if Kim's envoys at least keep up appearances at the talks? In the end, the resumption of multilateral negotiations could bring us back to the months of gridlock that marked the early stages of the six-party talks - with one small but crucial difference. This time, Kim Jong Il is definitely sitting on nuclear weapons, which means the price he could charge at the bargaining table has just gone...