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...last month from exile in the U.S. But because Kim has 17 1/2 years left on a suspended 20-year sentence for sedition, he remains prohibited from engaging in politics. Thus Kim Young Sam may well outpace him as the future leader of the opposition, unless Chun chooses to undo the sedition verdict. For now the President seems unwilling to go that far or to agree to a call by the two Kims for a "dialogue" between the opposition and the government. Nonetheless, by ending the ban, a vestige of the period of martial law that followed the assassination...
...trying to undo the problems of he public schools, thought, reformers threaten to introduce a new conformity in elementary and secondary education. The era in education that created Westside Alternative School is associated with a permissiveness and a quest for relevance that demolished intellectual rigor Projects that emphasized progressive education open condors, community schools, alternative or school-within-a-school programs--are being phased but their students directed back into mainstream education. When school boards consider projects beyond improvement of the local school, they reflect the values of 1980s material culture rather than free thought: the Los Angeles Board...
Another big seller is "square grouper," sly fisherman talk for the bales of marijuana smuggled ashore. Dope has brought a glitzy prosperity to many sleepy towns: dreamily painted vans have replaced rusted pickup trucks, and stone crabbers undo the top buttons of their work shirts to display gold chains...
...other tales, the message is saltier. Rabbi Leib and the witch Cunegunde contend for the soul of the world. The evil woman loses every battle of wills. Desperately she conceives a plan that cannot fail to undo her opponent: she will marry him. But in stories like The Wicked City, Singer is no longer content to twinkle. The angry retelling of Genesis changes Abraham's nephew Lot from a shepherd into the radical lawyer of Sodom. In one case, Lot represents a man who has murdered his own parents, throwing the defendant on the mercy of the court because...
...expect the offer to be accepted and that the South did not expect the aid to be delivered. But there were signs that the government in Pyongyang really may be trying to improve its relations with Seoul, even if only slightly. The North Koreans are still trying to undo the damage caused by their involvement in the bomb blast in Burma last year that killed 17 visiting South Koreans, many of them top officials, but missed the most obvious target, South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan. Overlooking such examples of past hatreds, the two sides decided to schedule aid talks...