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...gave at his inauguration on Feb. 25 was forgivable. "In the shortest period of time," Lee said, "this nation achieved both industrialization and democratization." Visiting bustling Seoul a few weeks ago to meet Lee - who was a reformist mayor of the city before he won the presidency - I was struck, as I always am in Korea, by the extraordinary story of a nation that, impoverished and ravaged by a cruel war, managed to turn itself within a generation into one of the world's most dynamic economies. Even better, in the past two decades it has shown itself...
...Hamas exacted a toll to avenge the deaths of what Israel claims were Iranian-trained senior instructors. The Islamist militia opened up its arsenal, hauling out medium-range Grad rockets which struck the port city of Ashkelon, while dozens of short-ranged Qassams peppered Sderot and other towns near Gaza on Wednesday, killing an Israeli student...
...wife, Mary - and, in quick succession, three children - Ballard immersed himself in the hands-on family life he craved. After the publication of The Drowned World in 1962, he could afford to stay home, writing more postapocalyptic tales. Then, the following year, Mary died of pneumonia. This loss struck Ballard as a bitter and unexplained crime of nature, and it would obsess him for decades. But it didn't damage his appetite either for fatherhood or the typewriter. In fact, he writes, "My greatest ally was the pram in the hall...
...Reading Between the Pixels I was immediately struck by your choice of photographs in "The Great Divide" [Feb. 18]. Whether intentional or not, your portrayal of Clinton in stark black-and-white photos, juxtaposed with the much warmer color photos of Obama, had the effect of increasing the very divide your article addressed. Obama was shown smiling and playing with a soccer ball, while Clinton was shown doing a phone interview, studying papers in preparation for a rally and standing in the dark before giving a speech. Photographs can be just as biased as language. A little more evenhandedness would...
...fisherman's taunts and insults got so under the president's skin that he dared his heckler to come face him. During his first major press conference as president in January, Sarkozy took such deep exception to questions from journalists he considered unfriendly that some of his replies struck observers as petulant and belittling...