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...like empty rhetoric to the hundreds of thousands of North Koreans who live?and in many cases die?in actual prison camps. Last week, the private U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea released The Hidden Gulag: Exposing North Korea's Prison Camps, a chillingly comprehensive description of Kim Jong Il's hellish penal system. Written by veteran human rights investigator David Hawk, the report draws on interviews with 30 former guards and inmates, including escapees forcibly repatriated from China. Among their revelations...
...Crime Too Small North Koreans have received life sentences for crimes as simple as singing a South Korean pop song or spilling ink on a photo of Kim Jong Il. Often, up to three generations of a prisoner's family are sentenced along with the culprit, on the theory of guilt by association...
...Meeting him and hearing him speak in person was not too far removed from reading [A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius],” said Kim T. Nguyen ’06, an English concentrator. Eggers is loath to use the word “memoir” to describe Genius, which most students towed along for him to sign. The story is tragic and indeed his own, relating the nearly-simultaneous death of both of his parents and the bond that followed as he played surrogate parent to his younger brother Toph. But with ironic laughter injected into...
...next phase of Allston planning will be handled by four task forces. Provost Steven E. Hyman will chair a group charged with planning the move of science and technology. Harvard Business School Dean Kim Clark will chair a group on the move of the professional schools...
...President Bush offered little by way of detail on his North Korea proposal, but signaled that it would involve a multilateral written guarantee to respect Pyongyang's sovereignty, signed by all five parties to the talks with Kim Jong Il's government - South Korea, Japan, China, Russia and the U.S. The President reiterated that a formal non-aggression pact between the U.S. and North Korea, as demanded by Pyongyang, is "off the table." (Even if the administration had been inclined to offer such a deal, it would not easily win ratification in the Senate.) Still, the very fact that Washington...