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Harvard Political Review, November 1993, Vol. XX, No. 4: The contents page features a photo of a former Canadian Prime Minister. The caption reads, "Loser Kim Campbell." No wonder she didn't get reelected, with a name like that. Man, she had nothing going...
...Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; in this novel, an Englishwoman goes to India to uncover the past of her step-grandmother (same obscure relationship), a woman who left her British Civil Servant husband for an Indian nawab. Mukherjee blatantly refers to The Great game of Kipling's Kim. Hannah's cosmic relationship with history seems suspiciously similar to Saleem's--the narrator of Midnight's Children-- linkage to Indian history. Mukherjee evens claims The Captivity Narrative of Mary Rowlandson as an ancestor to Hannah's tryst with the natives. It works, then, when Mukherjee suggests that Nathanial Hawthorne...
South Korean President Kim Young Sam visited Washington, and after delicate discussions he and Clinton announced that they would offer a "thorough and broad" package of rewards to North Korea if it first allowed inspection of its known nuclear facilities and resumed talks with South Korea over nuclear issues. Despite South Korea's reservations, the U.S. hinted that the inducements could include cancellation of yearly joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises...
Richard Lee '96 was nominated for president, as was the team of Antony Ling '96 and Paul Kim...
...year-old liberal arts major at Atlanta's Emory College: "When first-generation Asians talk about Caucasians, they tend to say 'Americans.' That leaves the impression that we're foreigners and always will be, and we have to accept that -- which I don't agree with." Elaine Kim, professor of Asian-American studies at Berkeley, comments, "It used to be that you had to be assimilating or foreign. Now we have young Asian-American writers who are refusing that choice. What they are trying to do, and succeeding at it, is to create a new self-defining way of being...