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...sustained from jumping off a bridge into the Han River; in Seoul. Park was under investigation by the Seoul District Public Prosecutor's Office for suspected corruption while he was president of the National Health Insurance Corp. His is the fourth apparent suicide in the past year of a Korean business or political leader suspected of graft or bribery...
...same, for reasons anybody can understand, veterans have for years been looking for a large-scale acknowledgment on the Mall in Washington, the national memory bank where the Korean and Vietnam memorials stand. Later this month they will finally get one. On May 29 they will collect there with their families, former Senator Bob Dole, who co-chaired the memorial effort, and actor Tom Hanks, who spearheaded the fund raising, to dedicate the National World War II Memorial, a project that took 17 years. If only it had been worth the wait. That war remains the great hinge on which...
...People were in every posture ... Some were crying and screaming. They all looked scared." UNNAMED WITNESS of the rail-yard explosion in North Korea that left at least 154 dead and 1,300 injured, prompting the secretive North Korean government to take the unusual steps of acknowledging the accident and seeking international...
Finally, the Han Ma-Eum Korean Drum Troup have a chance in the sun, showing their distinctive and authentic appreciation of Korean music and culture. $3 Regular, $2 Students (2 per I.D.), $5 at the door. 7 p.m. Lowell Lecture Hall...
...examples of misuse of executive power during wartime. Whether Lincoln’s detention of 13,500 people during the Civil War, Roosevelt’s imprisonment of 120,000 Japanese-Americans during World War II or Truman’s attempt to take over steel mills during the Korean War, these actions have all undermined the spirit of America’s democracy. The Supreme Court must take strong action against the Bush administration’s authoritarian interpretation of executive power and prevent the mistakes of the past from haunting this country once again...