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...getting personal. A recent editorial in the Rodong Sinmun, a North Korean newspaper, called him a "political charlatan" and "a pro-U.S. stooge," and warned of "catastrophic consequences" due to his new policies. "The North Koreans are asking how hard they have to slap Lee until they push him back on the Sunshine road," says Nicholas Eberstadt, a North Korea expert at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. Lee has shown no intention of changing his mind. Kim, Lee's national-strategy secretary, calmly dismisses the North's rhetoric as "not a new phenomenon...
...anything, it looks like Lee's resolve can only get stronger. That's partly because members of his Grand National Party had a strong showing in April 9 parliamentary elections, which may make it easier for Lee to push his get-tough agenda. To further boost his position, on April 15-19 Lee is scheduled to visit the U.S., where he'll meet with President George W. Bush at Camp David. During the Roh years, relations between the two longtime allies sank to a nadir, partly due to Roh's refusal to go along with Bush's efforts to squeeze...
...Your article omitted two of the causes of behavioral problems among teenagers: school curricula that do not relate to actual life in today's society, and teachers who have been programmed to push information into pupils rather than develop their potential. Don't blame the kids! Gordon Rabey, Wellington...
...group formed last August and trained by running six miles daily. While their chief mission is to protect the flame, they've also cracked down on protesters. Sebastian Coe, a two-time medalist and chairman of the London Games in 2012, called them "thugs" and said they tried to push him. A torchbearer in Paris, environmental journalist Yolaine De La Bigne, told the Associated Press that the team snatched away the Tibetan flag headband she was wearing...
...says. "In any event you'd have protests ... but the scale became much bigger when interest groups knew beforehand that they would be guaranteed prime-time television coverage. What was the Chinese government thinking? How could it send the People's Armed Police to beat up protesters, even push around foreign celebrities holding the torch, and not attract even more attention...