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...Skeptics note that Kim has played this game before, feigning cooperation in return for aid, only to revert to belligerence and isolation. But the Bush Administration and experts in Seoul seem to believe things will be different this time. One of the South's foremost North Korea watchers, Koh Yu Hwan of Seoul's Dongguk University, says Kim has "already decided that grand bargain" - nukes for economic aid - "is in his interest." Koh, who met recently with the head of the North's intelligence service, says the country's economy is so shaky that without "some significant economic reform...
...Stay With You,” choreographed by Adrian A. Diamond ’11 (a freshman—watch out for this one!), dramatized a child’s fantasy of her toys coming alive while she sleeps. Featuring a wind-up ballerina (Samantha K. Yu ’11), whose carefully controlled convulsions suggested that she ran on high-octane fuel, the act proved a delightful vision of the Nutcracker on acid.Harvard Bhangra broke up the monotony of a less memorable second half with an awesome display of traditional Indian dance. Amidst all the popping and locking robotic...
...programs that had originated in China. In June U.S. military officials said an attack from China had penetrated a computer system at the Pentagon--though nonclassified, it included a server used by the office of Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Beijing denies that it is behind hacker attacks. Jiang Yu, a spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry, described such reports as "wild accusations" and said they reflected a "cold war mentality...
...nationwide sales rose 8.3 percent over last year. Nationwide store visits increased 4.8 percent, but overall spending decreased, according to the National Retail Federation. For those students who did remain on campus, Black Friday provided a chance to grab discounted items at the mall. Lisa M. Yu ’11 woke up at 5 a.m. with her roommate to purchase clothes and memory soft pillows as gifts for the upcoming holidays. “The holiday season is definitely about gifts,” said Yu, adding that a trip to CambridgeSide Galleria was better than searching for sales...
...only get worse, and the lachrymose novel quickly becomes a caustic indictment of Confucian familial ideals, an exposé of the "deadness of family life," and, by extension, the ills of a charred, paternalistic nation. Guanglin's nonlinear narration may be detached and muddled at times, but his - and Yu's - unvarnished vision of China is a welcome antidote to the slick slogans manufactured by Beijing. "Harmonious society"? For Yu Hua, China is anything...