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...been a scrap collector, then a taxi driver who worked his way into owning a fleet of cars and a string of pachinko parlors from which he amassed a fortune. Perhaps mindful of the discrimination faced by Koreans, when the young Obara - then known by his Korean name Kim - was asked to pen a farewell sentiment in his junior-high class yearbook, he wrote: "Upbringing is more important than family name...
Claiming second place was Second Kiss Wireless, composed of Anthony Delvecchio '01, Jason Karamanchandi '02, Bryan Kim '02 and Gene Koo '97, whose contest entry would provide mobile applications for "companies on the move," beginning with a beta test of Harvard's own Shuttlegirl...
...consultations over missile defense, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage made clear Thursday that Washington would hold talks with Pyongyang "in the near future" once the Bush administration had completed its review of Korea policy. He also made public a letter from President Bush to South Korea?s President Kim Dae Jung promising to "strongly support the South?s engagement policy on the North." The statements are clearly intended to undo some of the diplomatic damage done during President Kim?s visit to Washington in March, when President Bush had appeared to distance himself from the South Korean leader...
...President Bush may simply have been thinking out loud, but his remarks were widely interpreted as a humiliation of the South Korean ally who had invested all of his political capital on promoting North-South reconciliation. President Kim's "Sunshine Policy" also had the backing of Washington's other key regional ally, Japan, and the Bush administration would not find much regional support for taking a harder line against Pyongyang. Armitage's remarks reveal an effort to smooth over any feathers ruffled by the President's initial comments...
...done deal. Pyongyang wants to move forward on talks over an agreement to end North Korean missile testing in exchange for a new package of aid, but President Bush?s remarks in March suggest a skepticism in Washington over a policy of bribing North Korea?s President Kim Jong Il to act the responsible global citizen...