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...article. My grandparents were from Mexico. My parents were born in the U.S. and grew up in a mainly Mexican community. They were raised to be bilingual and bicultural and graduated high school at a time when they were forbidden to speak Spanish there. My dad is a Korean War veteran. My brothers and I attended college. I married a Mexican farmworker with a green card. ˇDios mio! I remember a time when we rarely saw a brown face in the media. Immigrants remain the hardworking, grateful backbone of this great country's stability...
China has the most difficult task of all the participants in the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program that begin Monday in Beijing. As the chief patron of the North Korean regime - China supplies up to half the country's food requirement and even more of its daily oil needs - Beijing has long been seen as the only party with any real influence over the actions of the erratic Dear Leader, Kim Jong-il. But Kim gave his backers in Beijing a rude surprise on October 9, when North Korea announced that it had tested a nuclear...
...projection was completely lost. Understandably it was a percussion concert, but the visual aspect and variety were obviously missing at times. The show could have benefited from guest performances from other groups on campus such as the 2010 Steppers, the Pan African Dance Troupe or the Korean Drummers. A Spoken Word performance over one of the beats banged out by THUD would have also been a welcome diversion.Overall, “THUD! A Journey” was a great production and a pleasing forty-five minutes. THUD is comprised of mainly young performers from the Class of 2010, which means...
...Realpolitik" dictated, for example, that the Soviets' downing of a Korean airliner in September 1983, killing 269 people, was not allowed to significantly interfere with business as usual. And "realpolitik" eventually paid off - at least for the West - as the Soviet Union disappeared a few years later without a shot being fired. Today, "realpolitik" has given way to "realeconomics" - who cares if Moscow bumps off its citizens in Chechnya or elsewhere as long as the oil and natural gas are flowing from Russia? The West reacts most loudly when its investments in Russia are endangered...
...with a certain level of cynicism,” Kwon says. “There’s a lot of adversity in part because of jealousy and in part because there is some truth,” Kwon says. But this fact hasn’t deterred South Korean publishers and producers...