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No plan to let doctors with foreign licenses practice here anytime soon: PM
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Yoon rebuffs opposition's call for special probe into wife
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Ador CEO's dismissal to be decided on last day of May
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[Graphic News] Beer the most favored alcoholic drink by Koreans
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Science Ministry expresses regret over Japan’s pressure on Naver
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Haeundae Beach to become sand art museum in late May
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Suzy, Park Bo-gum star in AI fantasy romance ‘Wonderland’
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Medical professors set to take day off amid protracted walkouts by junior doctors
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Hostilities get out of hand as YouTuber murders another outside courthouse
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Dog goes on incredible journey to make it back home, 41 days after going missing
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Sarkozy’s pro-NATO policy more than symbolism
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has ushered in a new era of cooperation with a foreign policy that brings the country closer to the U.S. than it has been in decades. Vive la France. The fall of Muammar Qaddafi’s brutal dictatorship in Libya wouldn’t have been possible without Sarkozy’s leadership.
Sept. 7, 2011
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[Joseph E. Stiglitz] The price of 9/11 terror attacks
NEW YORK ― The September 11, 2001, terror attacks by al-Qaida were meant to harm the United States, and they did, but in ways that Osama bin Laden probably never imagined. President George W. Bush’s response to the attacks compromised America’s basic principles, undermined its economy, and weakened
Sept. 7, 2011
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[Iain McCalman] Australia’s refugee uproar ignores founding story
They came great distances across dangerous seas in overcrowded ships to land at various points on the coast. More than 800 boats made it during an 80-year period, each carrying fragile human cargoes. Lack of sanitation, poor food and disease were commonplace, sexual and other forms of violence were
Sept. 7, 2011
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[William Pesek] A $31 billion loss creates the biggest tea party
Few people in their right mind would find any good in a $31 billion loss. In India’s case, it may just be the best thing that has happened in a very long time. Let’s flash forward 20 years to what school kids will learn about recent events. Sure, they may hear about Anna Hazare, the anti-corruption
Sept. 7, 2011
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[Naomi Wolf] Charles Dickens and David Cameron’s great expectations
NEW YORK ― As I listened to the news coming out of England after the recent wave of urban riots ― and as I read Robert Douglas-Fairhurst’s compelling new biography of Charles Dickens, “Becoming Dickens” ― life and art seemed to be echoing each other.In the wake of the riots, British Prime Minister D
Sept. 7, 2011
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[Dick Polman] Cantor, GOP playing Scrooge with disaster relief
The ethos of Ebenezer Scrooge is now infecting federal disaster relief.It was inevitable that this bipartisan practice ― helping storm-tossed Americans, regardless of the cost ― would become politicized. After all, if ``tea party’’ Republicans would hold the debt ceiling hostage, in exchange for a h
Sept. 6, 2011
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[Lee Jae-min] After all, packaging matters
The color blue is an appetite suppressant, so if you wish to reduce weight you may want to put a bluish picture of your favorite food right beside the dining table or even dye your food blue, if you can. So went an interesting TV news program a couple of days ago. Blue is associated with the bitter
Sept. 6, 2011
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[Stephen L. Carter] Both parties misunderstand taxes, sacrifice
Taxes are in bad political odor these days. True, there has been no era in which taxation was popular, but we seem to have reached a moment of particular confusion. We have one major party dedicated to the bizarre principle that nothing that is not taxed now should ever be taxed again, and another d
Sept. 6, 2011
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[Robert Greene] It’s not easy being Greene
On or about Sept. 3, 1592, Robert Greene died from eating too many pickled herrings and drinking too much Rhine wine, or Rhenish, as the English called it in those days. I learned this from a poetry anthology ― a gift from my mother ― containing some of Greene’s poems along with a brief biography th
Sept. 6, 2011
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[Kim Seong-kon] Humans between angels, demons
It seems that most Koreans tend to think that the world is made of angels and demons, friends and enemies, or good and bad. It never seems to occur to Koreans that demons are fallen angels, yesterday’s friends can be today’s enemies and good persons may turn out to be bad persons and vice versa.Like
Sept. 6, 2011
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Inflation as solution for the U.S.? No, thank you
We just endured and survived a major political crisis over the possibility that the U.S. government might default on its debts. Most people ― other than a few high-stakes poker players on the right wing of the Republican Party ― agreed that this would be a terrible thing. But now, a growing number o
Sept. 5, 2011
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[David Ignatius] David Petraeus’ CIA challenge
WASHINGTON ― In taking over as CIA director this week, David Petraeus will confront a tricky problem: CIA analysts who will be working for him concluded in a recent assessment that the war in Afghanistan is heading toward a “stalemate” ― a view with which Petraeus disagrees. The analysts made t
Sept. 5, 2011
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[Rachel Marsden] Go get the Lockerbie bomber from Libya
Does Barack Obama care that the terrorist convicted only a decade ago of killing 189 Americans is reportedly running around Libya?The Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, was tried in the U.K. and then released two years ago ― but only on “compassionate grounds” because he was supposed to die wi
Sept. 5, 2011
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[Meghan Daum] New English words to live by
Every year around this time, the Concise Oxford English Dictionary releases a list of words that will be added to its next edition. It’s lucky that the announcement comes toward the end of August, when most humans want to go on vacation and most columnists, therefore, need to write an “evergreen.”Ev
Sept. 5, 2011
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[Eric X. Li] Chinese politics: Left or right, red and redder
SHANGHAI ― China watchers are all talking about one of the most interesting recent developments in the country’s political and social scene: “singing red” ― the revival of revolutionary songs epitomizing the leftism of the Maoist era. It began in Chongqing, a major city of 20 million in the nation’s
Sept. 5, 2011
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N.Y.’s new attorney general stands up to big banks
So here’s Eric Schneiderman, of whom you’ve probably never heard, who last year was elected attorney general of the state of New York, a job that arguably makes him the third most-influential state officeholder in the nation, behind only the governors of New York and California.This is because the a
Sept. 4, 2011
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[Joel Brinkley] War costs greater than thought
As the congressional debt-reduction “super committee” begins work next week, it had better take into account trillions of dollars in anticipated war costs that no one in Washington seems willing to acknowledge.For decades now (and probably much longer) government estimates of war costs strove not to
Sept. 4, 2011
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[S. P. Seth] China’s hegemony to face broad resistance
U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden’s recent China visit appears to have been quite uneventful, apart from the reported fight between a visiting American goodwill basketball team (unrelated to Biden’s visit) and their Chinese counterparts. Is this a portent of things to come?Considering China’s nervousnes
Sept. 4, 2011
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[Ramesh Ponnuru] U.S. should follow world down on company taxes
Nations don’t compete with one another the way companies do. Pepsi’s gain is almost always Coca-Cola’s loss, but the same doesn’t always, or even often, hold true for national economies. Governments do compete in some respects: They want to attract capital investment to their countries, for example,
Sept. 4, 2011
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[Park Soo-gil] In facing the North, politics should stop at the DMZ
A leading South Korean newspaper recently published a three-part series of interviews with Kim Hyun-hee, one of the two North Korean agents who bombed KAL 858 in November 1987, killing all 115 persons on board.The articles stirred up a complex strand of painful memories for me, as it probably did fo
Sept. 4, 2011