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...agonized over a teenager's predilection for risk taking, impulsive behavior and overriding lack of good judgment. This research frees us to be patient rather than react with frustration and to understand that we must remain involved as teenagers grow into adulthood, offering them guidance, structure and firm rules. Kim Turpin Davis President Parents Council of Washington Bethesda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 6/21/2004 | See Source »

...When a rich brother goes to visit a poorer brother, the rich brother should not go empty-handed. We wanted to provide $100 million of support. But there was no legal way to do it." Kim Dae Jung, former South Korean President, in an interview with the Financial Times, in his most candid remarks to date concerning the secret payments to North Korea made while he was in office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 6/21/2004 | See Source »

Believe it or not, North Korea has a literary scene, although its indomitable muse is Kim Jong Il, who keeps writers on the national payroll to pen books about himself and who has personally written (according to Pyongyang) a nonfiction work on film and even some poetry. Kim Il Sung, the Dear Leader's father, once dubbed writers "engineers of the human soul"?but he and his son have always had strict control over the project specs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Literary Thaw in Korea | 6/21/2004 | See Source »

...governor "completely immersed in booze and women." The story is set in the 16th century, and there is no reason to suspect that the author is anything but a loyal subject of the Dear Leader. Still, when reading the book, it's hard not to make the connection to Kim's lobster-and-Bordeaux lifestyle in a country where at least a million people have died of starvation during his rule. "I read some parts with my jaw hanging open," says Brian Myers, an expert on North Korean literature at Korea University in the south of Seoul. "The parallels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Literary Thaw in Korea | 6/21/2004 | See Source »

...look at a few episodes from TBS (like HBO and TIME, a unit of Time Warner) shows that you can--sort of. The most conspicuous cuts are, surprisingly, not in the nudity--we lose breasts but not buttocks--but in the language. When Samantha (Kim Cattrall), the randiest and thus most excised character, trysts with her fireman lover, TBS cuts a scene of them humping against a fire engine. But it's more jarring when another fire fighter catches her trying on his uniform and yells, "Get the freak out of my freakin' gear! There's a freakin' fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: S_x And The Scissors | 6/21/2004 | See Source »

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