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When he disappeared from Beirut in January 1963, after telling his wife he would meet her at a diplomatic dinner party that evening, Kim Philby was a relatively obscure British journalist. During the quarter-century between his defection to the Soviet Union, for which he had been spying since the 1930s, and his death last week at 76 of undisclosed causes, Philby's legend grew to mythic proportions. Still active in the KGB, where he rose to the rank of general, Philby wrote a cryptic 1968 memoir, My Silent War, and gave only a handful of interviews. Yet his life...
Sophomore Aamina Thornton beat Harvard netminder Kelly Dermody to put the Lady Owls on the scoreboard just three minutes into the match. Moore and Kim Lambdin each did the same less than a minute later. When Gail Cummings and Moore tallied again, the Crimson found itself looking at a five-goal deficit midway through the first half...
...stopped their best scorer," Harvard senior Kate Felsen said, "but Mandee [Moore] and [Kim] Lambdin made...
...winner in last week's voting was Kim Dae Jung, 62, whose Party for Peace and Democracy captured 70 seats, a gain of 48, to become the second largest voting bloc. That showing marked a stunning turnabout in Kim's political fortunes. Because he refused to give up his presidential candidacy and rally support for the more promising Kim Young Sam, the country's other major opposition leader, Kim Dae Jung bore most of the blame for dividing the opposition vote last December, a blot that prompted his resignation as party leader two months ago. Now Kim not only will...
Faring less well was Kim Young Sam, 60, whose Reunification Democratic Party added only seven seats to its existing 52. There was speculation that Kim Dae Jung would try to push aside Kim Young Sam and head the two opposition parties, though so far he has merely said he will seek "common ground" with other opposition parties. Meanwhile, a third and more conservative opposition group, Kim Jong Pil's New Democratic Republican Party, won a respectable 35 seats in its first election. Political insiders speculated that President Roh might be tempted to seek an accommodation with that party, which controls...