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...North Korean issue-that a "dynamic, capitalist, reunited Korea" would be stiff competition for a China that aspires to impose its will on East Asia, hence Beijing keeps its unruly neighbor alive and refuses to support tough U.N. sanctions against North Korea. Let's hope for the sake of the Korean people that China does not succeed in promoting its self-interests and that there may be a reunited Korea before our lives are over. Juwon Yang Los Angeles...
...scenes with his Mexican girlfriend, Davis fires guns—lots of them.But at a roundtable interview this Monday, the British actor said he sees the film as more than just a shoot-em-up thriller.“I certainly have no interest in showing violence for the sake of violence. However, I see no point in ignoring it either,” he said. “Every child is taught, ‘don’t solve a problem with violence.’ But it can be a huge dilemma in life, because...
...toward “girl talk” or “guy things”—social pressure is not the same as necessity. Almost all students have a large degree of choice over their adherence to gender stereotypes. Stifling personal tastes and instincts for the sake of fitting one’s gender is not only weak, it smothers social change before society is even able to recognize its problems. Those individuals who pretend such norms don’t and never will affect them are either unimaginably lucky or blind...
...North Korean issue - that a "dynamic, capitalist, reunited Korea" would be stiff competition for a China that aspires to impose its will on East Asia, hence Beijing keeps its unruly neighbor alive and refuses to support tough U.N. sanctions against North Korea. Let's hope for the sake of the Korean people that China does not succeed in promoting its self-interests and that there may be a reunited Korea before our lives are over. Juwon Yang Los Angeles Krauthammer rightly commented that the U.N. has failed to achieve many of the goals for which it was established. Taiwan...
...secretly enjoying pissing people off, because I know that when you're pissing people off you're often doing the right thing. What I hope I'm doing better now than I used to do is picking the right battles to fight, and not just being provocative for the sake of being provocative...