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...country will have more to show off than a vibrant economy: it will be able to point to an astonishing political accomplishment. In little more than a year, the South Koreans, ever the industrious builders, have torn down the rigid structure of an authoritarian regime and constructed in its stead a brash new democracy. As is obvious to anyone who has watched the images of student demonstrations and political protest flicker across a television screen, it is a system beset by imperfection, discord and conflict, riven by diverse opinions and hot tempers, but a functioning democracy nonetheless...
...include Noah Berger '89, one of the leaders of last year's open meeting petition drive, in it s upcoming meeting with the Corporation, the council had ostensibly recognized that it no longer wanted to represent student concerns on such a divisive political issue. Now, in Berger's stead, the council will send council member Robert Weissman '88-'89 to the meeting. Weissman, who took a leave of absence last year to participate in Harvard Watch, a watchdog group sponsored by Ralph Nader, is as capable as anyone of explaining the need for an open meeting. But the council might...
...1920s and 1930s while the marines chased Augusto Cesar Sandino, Nicaraguans have come to feel they should be surprised by nothing the United States undertakes to do to them. When we were unable to catch up to Sandino, the Marines withdrew, installing the Somoza dynasty in their stead. The first Somoza caught up with Sandino almost immediately and had him assassinated...
...former pro- football quarterback (for the Buffalo Bills), once thought he would end up as a coach or teacher. Even now that he is campaigning for President he cannot suppress the urge to enlighten, to pounce on a negative outlook and offer an optimistic economic vision in its stead. His fervent embrace of the supply-side faith and its feel-good gospel of growth is more than just a political platform. It is a personal creed that has fueled his career and helped him develop a blend of conservatism and blue-collar populism that he sees as the natural extension...
...high school," she says, after reading The Double Helix by Nobel Laureate James Watson. Lobo majored in microbiology at the University of California, Berkeley, and took advanced courses in bacteriology and immunology. Says she: "I was really quite a good laboratory scientist." The experience stands her in good stead as she crisscrosses the continent, working 14-to-18-hour days. Lobo, 31, keeps tabs on a handful of health-care firms for Domain Associates, the Princeton, N.J., venture capital firm that she helped found...