Last week I headed up to the 9th floor of my office building to take care of some routine duties. The floor is filled with young interns, dressed in the tattered jeans and flannel shirts that are the trend during Korea’s wintry weather. Turning a corner I bumped into one of them, a young man [...]
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Andrei Lankov has an op-ed in the IHT offering his take on what American negotiators can accomplish as they prepare to engage with Pyongyang fully aware that its leaders have no intention of abandoning their nuclear arsenal. 1) it is possible to agree on dismantling the North Korean nuclear research and production facilities. 2) North [...]
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Excellent piece in the New Yorker by Seymour Hersh on securing (or not) Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal in the face of increasing attacks by the Taliban and radicalization of the nation’s military. A senior Pakistani official who has close ties to Zardari exploded with anger during an interview when the subject turned to the American demands [...]
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An article disputes attacks on Obama’s legal appointee Harold Koh over his comments regarding Sharia law and the U.S. legal system. I was in the room with my husband and several fellow alumni, and we are all adamant that Koh never said or suggested that sharia law could be used to govern cases in US [...]
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Isolated, impoverished and universally hated North Korea is going ahead with some sort of space launch. It can’t keep its cities lit or its roads full. It can’t even feed its people. But it can keep the entire region on alert as it ratchets up the kind of tension that has proven to be a [...]
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An Associated Press story reports that while Obama’s speech was being aired live in China the broadcast suddenly went to anchors when the words “communism” and “dissent” popped up. In translations too certain incendiary sentences are deleted, which makes me wonder what kind of aspiring world power could be so terrified of a few harmless [...]
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Having slept through the inauguration I printed out a copy of Obama’s speech to read on the train home. Behind it I stapled a couple of commentaries, one by William Safire and the other by Bob Herbert, neither of which did much to shake the thought that the words before me seemed empty. There’s a [...]
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Years ago I stepped off a bus in Mumbai — it was still Bombay then — and into a sea of waist-deep water as the annual monsoon transformed the city into a giant, filthy swimming pool. I turned around to look at the driver, thinking maybe I’d catch a ride back the way we came. [...]
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An article in the IHT by Norimitsu Onishi about the buraku of Japan and their slow rise out of the traditional depths of Japan’s ancient social hierarchy, a rise — and article — that took inspiration from Obama’s election in the U.S. What caught my attention was a short graf in the middle that referred to [...]
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Yesterday I looked at the date and realized with utter astonishment that Bush is going to be out of office in less than one week. With the world falling apart at the seams, that seminal event which I have not infrequently imagined/fantasized about is upon us and I hardly even noticed. Who else but the [...]
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