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...South Korea's parliamentary elections, Chung Dong Young, chairman of the youthful and liberal Uri Party, advised people in their 60s and 70s to "stay home and rest" instead of voting. As penance, Chung resigned his post as his party's campaign head and went on hunger strike. Yet in a land where political haplessness is increasingly the norm, his gaffe apparently failed to dent the party's standing. Instead, voters last week tripled the size of the Uri Party delegation, to 152, enough for a majority in the 299-seat assembly that has been dominated by a conservative...
...Salon.com, Sidney Blumenthal points out that the president “was asked three times whether he accepted responsibility for failing to act before Sept. 11 on warnings such as the President’s Daily Brief of Aug. 6, 2001, titled ‘Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.’” Although it seems that such pointed questions and blatant evidence (to reiterate: “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.”) would make anyone buckle and admit some fault, Dartboard realized that Bush’s unparalleled talents...
...issue that children are not equipped with the same critical eye toward popular culture, as problematic as it seems? Obviously children are a vulnerable population in terms of marketing and advertising cultural products. Do books, however, strike an especially sensitive nerve? Are books the one cultural medium requiring the most rigorous standards of quality preservation due to their unique place in a child’s learning environment? We’ve slowly begun to accept, if not embrace, popular culture’s place in the high school and college classroom as material that enhances critical dialogue, stirs debate...
...first half saw Harvard strike first as Calvert scored an extra-man goal—one of three goals scored with the 6-on-5 advantage. But Brown star attackman Chazz Woodson, who leads the Ivy League with 34 points, scored twice to put Brown ahead...
DIED. EDWARD J. PISZEK, 87, founder of Mrs. Paul's seafood empire; in Fort Washington, Pa. In 1946, cooking in a bar while on strike from his job at General Electric, Piszek discovered that his deviled crabs, which had become the house favorite, tasted just as good after a week in the freezer. He and friend John Paul, a bread salesman, each pitched in $350 and starting selling frozen fish sticks. He bought out Paul in the 1950s but denied his mother's request to rename the brand Mrs. Piszek...