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Harvard came one step closer to running the world last night after Kennedy School of Government graduate Ban Ki-Moon emerged as the presumptive victor in the quest to replace Kofi A. Annan as secretary-general of the United Nations...
...lowest point of South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki Moon's two-year tenure came in June 2004, when a Korean translator working in Iraq was captured and beheaded on video by insurgents. The brutal act enraged the South Korean public, many of whom opposed the planned dispatch of further Korean troops to Iraq, and much of that anger was directed squarely at Ban and the Foreign Ministry. Taxis in Seoul refused to pick up foreign service officers, and there were public calls for Ban's resignation. But instead of panicking, Ban calmly announced that he would be reassessing...
...Oscar-winning The Sting; in Englewood, New Jersey. The Mississippi native and onetime prizefighter lent his mellifluous voice and astute, low-key style to such Broadway shows as The Gospel at Colonus and All God's Chillun Got Wings, and won acclaim in 1962 for the off-Broadway Moon on a Rainbow Shawl, which co-starred his son and fellow baritone, James Earl Jones...
...THOUGHT I KNEW YOU, REVEREND MOON The Nation publishes an exposé on the battle over the top job at the conservative Washington Times--owned by oddball Sun Myung Moon, head of the Unification Church--and shows its newsroom to be a hotbed of thinly veiled (and not so veiled) racism and sexism. The Times replies that the article is based on "fabrication." Wait--did Jayson Blair...
...darkness, patrolling for insurgents in blind alleys custom-made for ambushes and narrow passages perfect for concealing roadside bombs. It was anyone's bet who faced a more dire risk, the hunted in terrorist cells or the hunters in humvees, along with whom I was riding under a half-moon. I was in Iraq to profile the American soldier as "Person of the Year" for TIME magazine. It was a dream assignment, a chance to escape Washington and work in exotic environs on a big story...