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...ethnic Koreans who dwell in Japan. And, like many zainichi, he grew up identifying with the North Korean regime. Lee attended Korean-language schools run by Chongyron, the fiercely pro-Pyongyang Korean residents association in Japan, where he was taught that North Korea was a socialist paradise...
Notorious for most of his career as a ferociously partisan conservative, French President Nicolas Sarkozy appears to have changed gear since his election in May. First, he named longtime Socialist Bernard Kouchner as his foreign minister, and included a handful of other leftists in his cabinet - a move denounced by the Socialists as taking advantage of personal ambition to divide and conquer the left. (Kouchner was expelled from the party.) Now, detractors charge, Sarkozy is seeking to sway the outcome of the Socialist Party's internal power struggle by off-shoring one of its main contenders, former Finance Minister Dominique...
...replace current IMF director general, Spaniard Rodrigo Rato, who steps down in October. That would appear to make Strauss-Kahn a lock for the job, although not if developing nations - emboldened by recent grumblings from Britain - propose a strong alternative candidate. In going to bat for the former Socialist Finance Minister who oversaw France's last big economic and employment boom in the late 1990s, however, Sarkozy gives little sign he's ready to foreswear the European grip on the position for the sake of greater international diversity...
...reporter. The subject of the conversation, however, can vary. I received a guided tour of the University of São Paulo’s equivalent of University Hall—invaded by students and barred to the press—after a fifteen-minute argument with a socialist student named Duarte who tried to convince me of the democracy of Hugo Chavez’s closing of Radio Caracas Televisión. I watched with amused befuddlement as my host father dug into his hunk of watermelon with gusto and a knife and fork...
Kouchner has spent his career making noise. That has alienated him from his longtime Socialist Party colleagues--they're furious both that he supported Saddam Hussein's overthrow and that he joined the Cabinet of their archfoe, new President Nicolas Sarkozy. In May they threw Kouchner out of the party...