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...Westerner, Peters has become the public face of a network of activists, many motivated by their Christian faith, who have devoted their lives to helping North Koreans, including many living illegally in China, escape to freedom in South Korea. He and others in the network compare it to the Underground Railroad, which took African-American slaves from the South to freedom in the North. The activists are convinced that their cause is as urgent as the abolitionists' was. "When we look back at this era, at what North Korea has done to its people, I'm convinced the civilized world...
...PETERS CAME TO BE ONE OF THE founding members of the underground railroad long after he first arrived in South Korea. He was a senior at Michigan State University when he dropped out after what he calls "a highly transforming conversion to Christ." Within a few months, in 1975, he was in Seoul as a lay missionary, where he joined what has become Christianity's great success story in Asia. "Think of Korea's history," says Peters. "Conquest and occupation by other nations, poverty, civil war. It's fraught with suffering--suffering now experienced most acutely by North Koreans. This...
...border in about 100 trucks and then assembled it a few kilometers inside Iraq, near Tawke. The rig - owned and operated by the Great Wall Drilling Co., a subsidiary of China's state-owned National Petroleum Corp., has hit several potential deposits of oil more than 3,000 m underground. And a second DNO rig is planned to go up nearby in June. DNO has tried to tamp down soaring expectations. Eide says that although there is "movable oil, we still don't know how much...
Evan L. Hanlon ’08, a DJ for WHRB’s underground rock show Record Hospital (RH), has no pretensions about the station’s campus listenership. “At Harvard, we don’t have a great following,” he says. “Also, the bulk of our programming is classical and you’re not going to get 6,000 kids tuning into classical...
David A. Rios ’07, a DJ for RH, WHRB’s underground rock program, has an opinion about the station’s mission that is as large (but not nearly as fuzzy) as his wildly-unkempt hair: “All the departments have the same goal: to play music geared to a niche…to have people listen to good music that they won’t hear somewhere else...