Word: yoo
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...North Korea, Yoo Seun Eum's job was considered to be a prestigious one: she ensured that the comrades in her local ward carefully dusted the official portraits of Dear Leader Kim Jong Il and his father, the late Kim Il Sung, hanging on their homes' walls. But life was grim, and after two sons fled to South Korea in 1997, she followed three years later. Since her arrival, Yoo has drifted through a string of menial, low-paying jobs. Now working as a cleaning woman, she is able to make ends meet with a small temporary stipend from...
...latest arrivals join an estimated 5,200 already living in the South, and their ranks are expected to grow as conditions in their homeland worsen. But as Yoo testifies, stepping out of a totalitarian time warp and into a high-tech, hyper-competitive society can be the challenge of a lifetime. To help them assimilate, Seoul gives refugees a two-month-long "life-training" course?teaching such things as how to open a bank account?and a $23,000 settlement payment. They also get a monthly income supplement of up to $375 and help with housing...
However, the Taliban did represent a nation state--one that was party to the conventions. Still, the Administration decided that, as John Yoo--a University of California law professor who while a Justice Department attorney wrote one of the primary memos--explained last week in a Los Angeles Times editorial, "the Taliban militia lost its right to prisoner-of-war status because it did not wear uniforms, did not operate under responsible commanders and systematically violated the laws...
...among friends," says the man Johnny Depp calls Papa. So when Dustin Hoffman comes through town and shows up at the Costes, Coco puts on Harry Nilsson's Everybody's Talkin' (the theme to Hoffman's Midnight Cowboy), sneaks up behind Hoffman and whispers breathily, "Zees eez for yoo." It's their running joke. That's not to say there haven't been setbacks. In the late 1990s, the Costes bought a mansion in the Marais district that they were planning to turn into a five-star hotel with over 100 rooms; instead, they recently sold it to residential real...
...regime would ultimately be destroyed in a conflict with the U.S., but the impoverished pariah state is sinking into oblivion anyway and has little else to lose. "North Korea is ready for a suicide attempt," warns Yoo Ho Yeol, an associate professor at Korea University in Seoul. The U.S. will determine whether it is an assisted suicide. Here are Washington's options, and the special difficulties each presents...