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...obsession with a Bollywood starlet to write a vicious computer virus and unleash it on the world. The misadventures of this renegade geek-along with those of the starlet, her mother, a shallow London marketing executive, his promiscuous girlfriend, a couple of xenophobic European bureaucrats and a Korean society devoted to an online fantasy game-combine to make for what may be this year's funniest piece of serious literature...
...author says that one of his models for Transmission was the fiction of English satirist Evelyn Waugh. When he exposes the inner workings of a Korean online role-playing club, hilariously parodies a Bollywood plot or offers a careful study of how tomatoes are stacked in a California supermarket, Kunzru shows he can do everything a gifted satirist is meant to do. Except perhaps for the most important thing. Waugh's critiques of the modern world's shallowness are set off against a sense of a Christian past that has been lost, a past that can be regained...
...remarks were first reported by the Korean Internet news outlet dkbnews.com, which posted an audio clip of the speech last Friday...
Nonetheless, Summers continued to draw criticism from leaders like South Korean Health and Welfare Minister Kim Keun-tae who two days later demanded an apology...
...fighting--those who we say are using immoral methods? I am an American living in Canada, and I never thought I would see the day when U.S. government agencies would write memos attempting to justify actions that Americans would condemn if perpetrated by others. There was outrage during the Korean War when the North Koreans were accused of brainwashing American prisoners. Similar activities were decried in other wars. Now, the U.S. is carrying out equally repulsive actions. RICHARD ANDERSEN Victoria...