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Brian E. Malone '96, a member of the Peninsula Council, puts it more bluntly: "That's one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard." He offers an alternative view that reflects the emphasis on tradition that typifies conservative groups like Peninsula. "I'd interpret addition of the word 'distinction' to mean that Harvard is restoring emphasis to its academic tradition," he says. "In that way it's an improvement over diversity alone...
...much of a difference really," says G. Brent McGuire, senior Peninsula council member. "I still don't subscribe to the view that diversity by itself is a good thing. So I guess in that sense it's an improvement...
...Jong Il's childhood was hardly a settled one. He was only seven when he lost his mother. She died in labor, delivering a stillborn infant just a year after her husband was anointed leader of North Korea by Stalin's regime. The Korean War then engulfed the peninsula, and Kim Jong Il spent its duration in northeast China. Back home, he transferred from school to school before graduating from Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang in 1964. His thesis: an analysis of his father's ideas on socialist agriculture. Still, the young Kim complained in private that his father...
...Sung was a nobody when he arrived at the port of Wonsan on Sept. 19, 1945, at the end of World War II and the beginning of chaos on the Korean peninsula. He had lived the previous five years in obscurity in the Soviet Union and returned to his native land dressed in the uniform of a Soviet army captain. Some people did not even believe he was who he claimed to be. Kim Il Sung? Wasn't that the name of a famous guerrilla? Didn't he die fighting the Japanese in Manchuria years before? Could this fleshy...
Conventional wisdom blames either Moscow or Washington for turning Korea into the first hot conflict of the cold war. Kim Il Sung, however, had reason to want such a war. He had always preached that war was the only way to unify the peninsula and drive out the U.S.-backed regime of Syngman Rhee in Seoul. Furthermore, it would bolster his stature against other Korean communists who were urging different ways to unite the country...