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This omnipresent custom raises a serious question: Where to draw the line between a monetary payment made out of respect and adherence to tradition and outright bribery. It is this dilemma that Korea's newly-elected president, Kim Young Sam, has tried to address. His answer has been quite clear...
...Kim, Korea's first civilian president since General Park Chung Hee staged a coup in 1961 and established military authoritarian rule, has issued a sweeping rebuke of the practice of naemul since taking office earlier this year. In a cascade of reform legislation, Kim has attempted to put the practice of naemul out of commission for good...
Looking at the election from a historical point of view, one has to wonder why former Prime Minister Kim Campbell, who took over from Mulroney when he resigned last spring, made such a poor showing. Was Mulroney surrounded by a cult of personality that kept the Party going? He was popular enough ever since he traded barbs with the last Liberal Prime Minister, John Turner, on national television. His resignation, though, did not exactly throw the country into turmoil...
...comparing dimmed memories of the 1951 cut with this one, what strikes you is how resistant to censorship Tennessee Williams' work was. In the struggle between poetically yearning Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) and brutally realistic Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando) for the soul of her sister and his wife Stella (Kim Hunter), Williams personified what was for him the essential conflict of modern life. The newfound footage adds a touch of $ evil to Brando's work, makes Blanche a bit more vulnerable and stresses the genteel Stella's sexual thralldom to Stanley. But we're talking emphasis here, not basic reinterpretation...
...Melzer stays, the classroom might quickly empty. The question he'd ask Melzer's defenders, he says, is "how they would feel about their child being in that person's care." Not pleased, comes the reply from some vocal Bronx Science parents and students. Says 10th-grader Sammy Kim: "It doesn't matter if he does it or not, it's just that he advocates having sex with little boys. It's . . . it's his mind." A Bronx Science student's mother, who wishes to be identified only as Kate, is more direct: "He's a pervert. It's like...