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...stance has been harder to maintain as more information about the camps has been made public. An Hyuk, a former prisoner in the North who co-founded NKGulag, a Seoul-based human-rights organization, told TIME that the government "needs to find a way to deal with this issue or else it will lose a lot of credibility." Won Hee Ryong, an opposition legislator, says South Korea is "giving up our own values just to win the heart of North Korea." International interest in the camps is growing, as volumes of credible testimony about the prisons in the North pile...
...while the money at stake is enormous, the firm’s offices maintain a strictly casual air. Polo shirts and sweaters far outnumber suits and ties, even among the most senior portfolio managers. One afternoon in October, David R. Mittelman, Harvard’s star manager of domestic bonds who earned $25.4 million for his work last fiscal year and $34.1 million the year before that, rocked back in his chair on the trading floor, sporting khaki pants and a short-sleeve, collared shirt...
Still, the University also may wish to maintain some degree of distance from the management company and its corporate environment. When Cabot, Meyer’s predecessor, launched the firm in 1974, he said his objective was to operate “at an arm’s length” from the University...
Hodgson says that the group will continue to have open meetings and attempt to maintain contact with faculty and administrators as the concentration is planned. The group has a very flexible attitude, but wants to assert that multifarious student opinions are incorporated into the most ideal situation...
Though many areas of the medea are purely modern, the dialogue presents a curious marriage of the ancient and the current. Stylistically, the words maintain a poetic, terse quality reminiscent of the original Medea. The prose here is succinct yet hazy, building up meaning though many small declarations rather than direct statements, as if a pointillist painting...