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...interests in China are spooked by the vitriol: Honda, the first Japanese carmaker to produce autos in China, announced it would curtail business trips to the mainland for safety reasons. Meanwhile, eight events for the Korea-Japan Friendship Year have now either been postponed or cancelled. Roh posted a "letter to the nation" on his website declaring that his country must be prepared to wage a "diplomatic war" with Japan...
...that he would donate any profit from the killing fields to the Sun Fund, a philanthropic organization established by the Prime Minister in 2002. But critics of the deal have not been appeased. Youk Chhang, director of a Khmer Rouge archive called the Documentation Centre of Cambodia, wrote a letter to Prime Minister Hun Sen last week seeking his intervention. "Any contract contains benefits, and we should not benefit from the souls of those who have died," says Youk Chhang. "Genocide should not be commercialized. It is already bad enough to have lived through genocide...
...list--is his most difficult book but also his funniest. Herzog is an academic in the midst of a nervous breakdown: his wife has left him, he wanders aimlessly from New York City to Martha's Vineyard to Chicago and finally to his ramshackle farmhouse in the Berkshires, composing letters in his head to girlfriends and ex-wives, Heidegger and Willie Sutton, the living and the dead. His last letter is to himself. "This strange organization, I know it will die. And inside--something, something, happiness ... 'Thou movest...
...called up the Wake Forest to say thanks but no thanks, and, having burned his bridges, spent the next four months sweating out the acceptance letter. Fortunately for Wilson—and fortunately for the Crimson’s future Ivy title campaign—he was accepted. For someone who admittedly wasn’t all that interested in Harvard until the last possible moment, it had become the only foreseeable outcome...
Mary H. Power, Harvard’s Senior Director of Community Relations, said last week that her office was reviewing Menino’s letter...