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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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The best remedy for the price of gas
There is no magic wand that will bring down the price of gasoline, which has once again crossed the $4 mark. But there is a long-term solution that will inoculate us from higher costs in the future.The Obama administration can’t do much to lower the price of a gallon of gas, but it is on the cusp of a crucial decision that could help consumers come out ahead because they would need less gas.Offici
April 20, 2011
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[Greg Burk] The good book, re-edited
Despite the anti-Semitic ranting of Mel Gibson, the public gulf between Roman Catholics and Jews has narrowed during recent decades. It started with overtures from Pope John Paul II between 1979 and 2000, during which time he visited Auschwitz and Jerusalem. After following his predecessor to Auschwitz in 2006, Pope Benedict XVI slammed Holocaust deniers in 2009, then set off on an Israel trip. An
April 20, 2011
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[Aryeh Neier] Goldstone reversal on the Gaza war
NEW YORK ― Justice Richard Goldstone was condemned by many apologists for Israel’s human-rights record for his conclusion that Israel intentionally targeted Palestinian civilians as a matter of policy during the 2008-09 Gaza war. Goldstone’s United Nations-backed report accused both Israelis and Palestinians of war crimes, and called on both sides to investigate, prosecute, and punish their own pe
April 20, 2011
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[Editorial] Saemaul Day
The coming Friday, April 22, marks the first “Saemaul Day” since the National Assembly passed a bill in February to commemorate the anniversary of former President Park Chung-hee’s launching of Saemaul Undong or the New Community Movement in 1970. But actual celebrations will be deferred to May as related authorities feared misunderstanding about their motivation in connection with the April 27 by
April 19, 2011
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Coping with power shortages for this summer
The government has set down a policy outline for overcoming the power shortage this summer, which will be inevitable due to the crisis at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. Under the outline, the government will invoke a relevant law, but there will be no planned rolling outages. Efforts to save power on the part of enterprises and households will be crucial.It is esti
April 19, 2011
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In Peru, two weak choices for next presidency
Peru’s political system has been ailing for decades. Corruption, violence and deep economic inequalities have left it weakened. Now, the first round of voting in the presidential race, which took place Sunday, threatens to leave the country in critical condition.From a field of five candidates, two emerged as front-runners likely to move on to a runoff election June 5. Both appear wanting in exper
April 19, 2011
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[William Pesek] China may tell Geithner to get lost
Timothy Geithner says borrowing more from China to finance tax cuts for the most affluent Americans would be irresponsible.The Treasury secretary has it backward. The real question is whether Beijing is willing to double down on a nation whose balance sheet makes Italy look good. Holding $1.2 trillion of U.S. debt is a fast-growing risk to China.Traders have a theory about why the euro is reasonab
April 19, 2011
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[Lee Jae-min] Royal books come home after 145 years
Although no official ceremony was held, the wave of exultation covered the entire country when Asiana Airlines’ B777 touched down at Incheon Airport last Thursday. What emerged from the cargo section was the first batch of the 297 Royal Ceremonial Books, taken by the French military from a royal library in 1866, marking a historic return after 145 years. The books were taken from Ganghwa Island, a
April 19, 2011
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[Albert R. Hunt] Brzezinski says Obama gets China, flunks Israel
Zbigniew Brzezinski is a fan of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy, with important caveats. He supports most of the policies of the past three months in the turbulent Middle East, thinks the president has improved relations with the Europeans and the Russians, and believes the summit meeting in January between Obama and President Hu Jintao of China was a success. At the same time, he faults t
April 19, 2011
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[Kavi Chongkittavorn] Burma seeks to head ASEAN in 2014
Can Burma have its cake and eat it too? The answer rests with ASEAN. Right after the new civilian government was installed at the end of March in Naypyidaw, one of the first important tasks President Thein Sein did was to submit a letter to the ASEAN Secretariat stating Burma’s readiness to take up the grouping’s chair in 2014.At the 11th summit meeting in Vientiane in November 2004, under pressur
April 19, 2011
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[Kim Seong-kon] Where is Korea’s Allen Ginsberg?
Allen Ginsberg, who passed away in April 1997, once wrote a defiant poem entitled, “Capitol Air,” which begins: “I don’t like the government where I live.”I met him in 1981 in Buffalo, New York, where he read ― actually performed ― the poem to music on stage. The celebrated poet, who heralded the Beat Generation with his monumental poem “Howl” in 1956, fascinated the audience by reading his newly
April 19, 2011
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Help disaster victims find the jobs they want
As one month has passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake, moves to provide employment assistance to victims of the disaster are spreading nationwide.Companies in the railway, video game, food, medicine and financial service sectors, among others, have come out with job offers for victims of the March 11 catastrophe. About 170 corporations have posted job offers with an online employment infor
April 18, 2011
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[Doyle McManus] Drawing budget battle lines
In case it wasn’t clear already, we now know what the 2012 election will be about: how fast to cut federal spending, whether to raise taxes and what to do about healthcare, especially Medicare.President Obama’s awkwardly named “deficit reduction framework,” unveiled Wednesday, has the usual list of flaws of any long-term budget proposal. It doesn’t tie up every loose end. It includes a couple of “
April 18, 2011
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[David Ignatius] Obama’s new national security team
WASHINGTON ― Economists theorize about an optimal position on the “welfare curve” ― a balance that, if changed, will make things worse. President Obama may feel the same way as he contemplates the coming round of changes to his national security team. By accident or design, Obama has assembled a roster of officials in key positions who work well together and perform their roles effectively. Most o
April 18, 2011
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[Nicole Gelinas] China moves to stifle economic speech too
In the week and a half since the Chinese government detained artist Ai Weiwei on suspicion of “economic crimes,” Western governments and the global arts community have condemned China’s repression of free speech. Regular Americans, too, should care about China’s habit of stifling information that it doesn’t like to hear. China is applying the same habit to another type of speech, economic speech.
April 18, 2011
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[Meghan Daum] Why Sarah Palin doesn’t get what she deserves
OK, so Sarah Palin probably isn’t running for president. She may have told Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren that she was “tempted” because she was “wondering who the heck is going to be out there with a servant’s heart willing to serve the American people.” But evidence suggests there’s not a lot to wonder about when it comes to her candidacy.Palin’s approval ratings have never been lower. A CNN poll
April 18, 2011
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[Peter Singer] Bringing a universal digital public library within reach
MELBOURNE ― Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written. Then, in 2004, Google announced that it would begin digitally scanning all the books held by five major research libraries. Suddenly, the library of utopia seemed within reach.Indeed, a digital universal library would be even better than any earlier thinker could have imagined, because e
April 18, 2011
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Have a real U.S. federal budget debate
U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan’s 2012 budget is the first sensible, long-term fiscal blueprint to come out of Congress in decades. You could say it’s a budget of the grownups, by the grownups, for the grownups.As such, it deserves what even President Obama says is needed, an “adult conversation” on the country’s financial health.Not that there hasn’t already been comment on Ryan’s “Path to Prosperity.” House
April 17, 2011
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Should there be a ‘fat tax’ in the United States?
If an individual’s body mass index isn’t a purely personal matter, what is? We have the right to choose between healthy food or junk food, even if the latter is more likely to result in obesity and related health problems. But once our choices affect others, there’s a natural conflict between individual freedom and social responsibility. In a nation where rising health-care costs and diminished ac
April 17, 2011
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[Shashi Tharoor] Cricket and caution: India-Pakistan ties
NEW DELHI ― India-Pakistan relations ― a challenge at the best of times, and in the doldrums since the terrorist attacks on Mumbai of November 2008 ― received an unexpected boost last month from an unlikely source: cricket. When the two countries became semi-finalists in the game’s quadrennial World Cup, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh invited his Pakistani counterpart, Yusuf Reza Gilani, to
April 17, 2011