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Through a translator, Yong-In President Jung Heang Kim addressed the competitors, their families and the tae kwon do enthusiasts who packed the bleachers of the Track...
Junior setter Kim Gould had another solid game with 54 assists and 15 digs, while co-captain Allison Bendush recorded a match-high 20 digs...
...Kim clearly hasn't visited California lately. But it's true that Roh frequently deviates from South Korea's political script. A liberal former lawmaker and human-rights lawyer, he won last December's election by pitching himself to young Koreans as the sole candidate who could clean up dirty-money politics, stop a drift to war between the U.S. and North Korea over the Stalinist regime's nuclear ambitions, and whip the South's reform-averse industrial conglomerates into shape...
...TIME for comment). But with blood in the water, Roh's conservative enemies in the Grand National Party (GNP) have been on the attack. In late September, they blocked Roh's nominee for the country's top auditor post and passed a no-confidence motion against Home Affairs Minister Kim Doo Gwan, who was dismissed last month. Lately, they've used a series of annual legislative hearings on government affairs to air allegations that Roh illegally hid real estate assets under the name of his brother, chauffeur and other relatives and friends. Last month, the opposition used another hearing...
...also engaged in acrimonious and counterproductive sniping matches with politicians and the press. When opposition lawmaker Kim Moon Su first accused Roh of hiding his land holdings?Roh denies any wrongdoing?the President filed a $2.5 million libel suit against Kim and four newspapers that published stories on the allegations. Last month Roh asked the courts to suspend the lawsuits until the end of his term, after an avalanche of bad press. But the damage has already been done. Making it personal doesn't look very presidential, says Choi Yang Soo, a communications scholar at Yonsei University in Seoul...