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Academia and South Korean stardom intersected Friday when Harvard’s Korea Institute hosted a panel discussion on the effects and future of “Hallyu” or the “Korean wave” of pop culture in East Asia. The panel offered cross-disciplinary perspectives on the Hallyu phenomenon. The standing room only event featured Korean song writer and music manager Jin-Young Park and actress and television personality Jung-Sook Park—both famous in their fields. Several members of the panel said the flood of movies, music, and television programs...
Student delegates from six Asian universities expressed optimism regarding North Korea’s nuclear disarmament program, while also arguing for patience and caution in a panel discussion held at the Institute of Politics last night. The moderator, Ford Professor of the Social Sciences, Emeritus Ezra F. Vogel, began by asking the student panelists about their reactions to the recent multinational agreement in which North Korea agreed to take steps toward dismantling its nuclear program in exchange for fuel aid. Vogel noted that in light of the recent agreement, yesterday’s discussion was “much more...
...services and would like to get in good with an almost certain also-ran who will still be chairing, say, the Senate Banking Committee long after the election is over. Hence the nifty $3,422,982 that Senator Chris Dodd--the Democrat from Connecticut who oversees that key Senate panel--socked away in the last quarter of 2006, the highest of any announced presidential candidate...
Global warming skeptics may be scarce, but they're still being heard. Many have taken refuge in the land of Blog, where they obsessively parse the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Sir Nicholas Stern and Al Gore. Although the pendulum of public opinion has swung swiftly and mercilessly away from them, the doubters provide a vital service. They keep the scientists and politicians in check, and are first to smack down the loons who want to shut down fossil-fuel industries. In Australia, the dynamic in grass-roots politics and public policy is toward immediate action...
...confirmed Drew Gilpin Faust as Harvard’s 28th president at a specially scheduled meeting yesterday. Twenty-two overseers were in attendance at the confirmation meeting, marking a record for recent times, according to overseer Frances D. Fergusson, who served on the search committee. News that the search panel had settled on Faust broke late Thursday night, but a president cannot be elected with the Overseers’ approval. Their consent was widely expected going into yesterday’s meeting. The overseers began arriving at Loeb House—the office of the governing boards?...