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Adrian Ow Yung Hwei, a student from Malaysia slated to enter Harvard with the Class of 2006 last fall, expected to receive his visa within a matter of weeks...
...conflict with the traditional family structure." Huang Chang-ling, vice president of the feminist Awakening Foundation, argues that the class should put more emphasis on gender equality, "otherwise it'll be meaningless." Couples needing a model of marital longevity, however, need look no further than their compatriots Liu Yung-yang and Yang Wan, whose 85-year union makes them the world's longest-married couple. Their granddaughter-in-law says, "(They) hardly had a quarrel with each other, keeping a very intimate relationship." Whatever their secret, too few of their countrymen...
...chang. President Kim Dae-jung's ruling Millennium Democratic Party has made overtures to Chung, but the football chief says he will form an independent party shortly after he officially declares his candidacy. In running for the presidency, Chung is fulfilling the dreams of his late father Chung Ju-yung, the founder of the Hyundai group, once Korea's largest conglomerate. He ran for president in 1992 but finished a distant third, his candidacy torpedoed by corruption allegations. The younger Chung must overcome charges of political inexperience and the opposition of Hyundai's trade unions, which fear he may fund...
Today, Adrian Ow Yung Hwei is slated to register as a first-year with the rest of the Class...
...Cairo to the lavish estate of an English duke. The Extinction Club almost gets lost on the way as it veers from history to biology to autobiography. But in the end Twigger's numerous digressions are worth the trip--like his set piece on the 11,000-volume Yung Lo Ta Tien encyclopedia, which contained the totality of Chinese culture before it was burned in the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. As every good traveler knows, some roads shouldn't be missed just because they don't lead anywhere...