Word: koreanness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Biggest blunder: Overreached in the Korean...
...zealous a supporter of the united front with the Kuomintang nationalists; landlords, who hated his pro-peasant rhetoric and activism; Chiang Kai-shek, who attacked his rural strongholds with relentless tenacity; the Japanese, who tried to smash his northern base; the U.S., after the Chinese entered the Korean War; the Soviet Union, when he attacked Khrushchev's anti-Stalinist policies. Mao was equally unsinkable in the turmoil--much of which he personally instigated--that marked the last 20 years of his rule in China...
...company then bills the customer at a marked-up price and pockets the profit. Customs agents also suspect that many distributors simply file phony export-declaration forms and ship directly to problem countries. Last December, Yuri I. Montgomery, an Olympia, Wash., exporter, was indicted on charges of sending South Korean-made stun guns called Thunder Woman and Thunder Blaster to Macedonia in 1992 without Commerce Department approval. Customs agents are now investigating whether the weapons were reshipped from Macedonia to neighboring Kosovo, where ethnic Albanians have been tortured. The cases the Customs Service has uncovered...
...christened jlee@fas or (@husc, as it used to be back in those days). But I should have known better, given Harvard's undergraduate population of 6,500, an Asian-American population of just under 20 percent and the popularity of many common Asian surnames--particularly those of Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese origin. So when I hit enter, the account registration program instantly informed me I was "lee39...
Take a recent chilly night in Phoenix. It's raining to end the world, and Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose department was sued by the feds last year for excessive force against inmates, could not be happier. More than 1,000 prisoners in his custody are jammed into Korean War Army tents, and it must be miserable out there, he tells the enthralled Italian American Society at a sausage feed. "There's holes in the tents," he says for the fifth or sixth time that day, grinning like...