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Last spring, 14-year-old Song was dragged from the front gate of her Seoul high school to a vacant parking lot by 10 female classmates, who for the next four hours took turns slapping, punching and spitting on her while two boys recorded the assault on cell-phone video cameras. One attacker kicked Song between the legs; others threatened to bury her alive. "I believed them," says Song, a pretty, doe-eyed girl who suffered severe bruises and a dislocated jaw. She still can't talk about the beating without crying (she insisted on a pseudonym before telling...
...Song's ordeal is part of a rash of brutal incidents that have pushed school violence and gang activities to the top of the national agenda in South Korea. In a chilling report released at a police-sponsored symposium last month, high school teacher Jong Sae Yong claimed that as many as 400,000 kids?5% of the national student body?belong to loosely affiliated gangs. The gang members call themselves iljin ("top rankers") and are involved in organized bullying, extortion and sometimes sex crimes. The Education Ministry says Jong's findings are exaggerated, but officials established a task force...
...offer so far. That's a start. But experts are worried that hardened gang members won't be caught, partly because their victims are often too scared to turn them in and partly because some schools are more interested in avoiding bad publicity than exposing violent kids. Just ask Song. Her assailants were never punished, although they have to check in regularly with a supervisor. "I hope they forget I exist," says Song. "I'm still afraid." Fear of violence should not be part of any high school curriculum...
...pragmatic nurse busies herself about the entire hospital in a straight-talking manner that forms a perfect contrast to Duncan’s constant upbeat attitude. Everything seems to be going fine (or as well as it can be) until suddenly, at the climax of the sponge bath song, Plumb drops dead on the floor. Duncan, who finds him, is more puzzled than remorseful: how will he tell Sarah, whose affection he’s just won, that her father died? What will he say to Maggie, who is hopelessly in love with Plumb? In a split second, he decides...
...unlikely that Devils & Dust will be anyone's favorite Springsteen record, but even the weaker songs reveal things about their creator. It isn't just that the man can play his guitar but that he changes his voice and pronunciation subtly on each song to sound more like the character he's singing about. The Boss cares about these people--maybe too much. But better a bleeding heart than none at all. --By Josh Tyrangiel