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Korean labor force to shrink by 10 million by 2044: report
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[AtoZ Korean Mind] Does your job define who you are? Should it?
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Allegations surrounding BTS resurface, enraged fans demand apology
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Students with history of violence will be barred from becoming teachers
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Top prosecutor pledges 'speedy, strict' probe into first lady's luxury bag allegations
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Medical feud leaves hospitals in financial crisis
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Samsung mocks Apple over iPhone alarm glitch
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'Queen of Tears' riding high on Netflix chart
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Chip up cycle won’t stay long: SK chief
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Speaker floats dual citizenship as solution to falling births
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[Barry Goldman] Wasps do it, but why should we?
Jacob is a golden retriever. Like many goldens, his favorite activity is retrieving a tennis ball. We throw the ball; he brings it back and drops it at our feet. It can go on for hours. Actually, we don’t know how long it could go on because we always give up before he does.But Jacob sometimes gets stuck when we play this game at my in-laws’ pool. This is because of two fixed, internal rules he ha
May 25, 2011
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The revival of the Mediterranean Sea
MADRID ― The Mediterranean is undergoing a monumental political transformation. Protests on its southern shores have now begun the process of bringing democracy to this region. Less visibly, perhaps, the Mediterranean is also undergoing another revival, equally important in terms of geo-economics.The changes in the world’s balance of power from the West to the East, from the Atlantic to the Pacifi
May 25, 2011
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Obama, Ryan, Gingrich muddle health debate
Love it or hate it, Medicare is driving itself and our country broke. The president’s proposed policy and that of Paul Ryan, the House Budget Committee chairman, are viewed as miles apart. The reality is different. And the silly name-calling is obscuring their considerable common ground. It’s even confusing a major presidential candidate.President Barack Obama is relying on a special panel, to be
May 25, 2011
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[Doyle McManus] Obama’s Mideast policy...shaped by hopes, fears
The United States may be the world’s only remaining superpower, but we’ve been a secondary factor in the wave of change sweeping the Arab world.Tunisia held its revolution without American help, unless you count Facebook and Twitter. In Egypt, President Obama probably helped speed Hosni Mubarak’s departure by withdrawing his backing of the regime, but it was the Egyptians’ revolution, not ours.In
May 25, 2011
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[Rachel Marsden] What Strauss-Kahn case reveals about French culture
International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, known as the “Great Seducer” in his home country of France, flunked out at seducing New York Judge Melissa C. Jackson last week. Instead, she sent him to Rikers Island pending further court appearances in the wake of a Sofitel maid’s accusations that he attempted to force his charisma upon her before leaving for the airport and boarding a p
May 25, 2011
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IMF chief should come from emerging economy
Finally, Dominique Strauss-Kahn has decided to resign as chief of the International Monetary Fund. The move is to prevent further damage to the institution, which is now playing a critical role in bailing out the peripheral euro-zone countries of Europe. Strauss-Kahn said in his letter of resignation that he wanted to focus his energy on defending himself against criminal charges that he sexually
May 24, 2011
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[Charles G. Koch] Economic freedom key to improving U.S. society
My brother David and I have long supported the principles that help societies prosper. I have actively done so for nearly 50 years, as has my brother for more than 40.In recent years, we have stepped up our efforts to deal with the enormous threats to the future well-being of the people of this country. This has prompted some extreme criticism. From the White House to fringe bloggers, we are now b
May 24, 2011
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[Park Sang-seek] Obama and bin Laden on revolutions
Ordinary people in both the Muslim and non-Muslim world anticipated President Obama’s reaction toward the Arab revolutions fairly accurately, but they were a bit puzzled by Osama bin Laden’s reaction. It is ironic that their positions on the Arab revolutions were announced to the world back-to-back.According to bin Laden’s posthumously broadcast message, he fully supported the Arab people’s revolt
May 24, 2011
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[Donald Cohen] ‘Job killers’ that aren’t
Since 2003, the California Chamber of Commerce has published an annual hit list of bills it labels job killers. The list has included legislation to protect consumers, workers and the environment and to raise revenue to fund public services or support middle- and working-class families.No politician ― Democrat or Republican ― wants to be known as someone who kills jobs, so many of them will avoid
May 24, 2011
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[Trudy Rubin] Karzai’s brother: Solve Pakistan problem
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan ― As the war grinds toward its endgame, and administration officials debate how fast to draw down troops and whether to talk to the Taliban, I got a startling earful on both subjects ― from one of Afghanistan’s most powerful and controversial leaders, Ahmed Wali Karzai, President Hamid Karzai’s younger brother.I interviewed AWK, as he is known, in his two-story office behind
May 24, 2011
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Wage cuts for reconstruction in Japan
The wage levels of national public servants have been determined based on recommendations by the National Personnel Authority every year since 1948. The system makes up for the restrictions imposed on government workers’ basic labor rights, including the right to strike.Without the NPA’s recommendations, the Kan administration plans to reduce the wages of national public servants. It aims to use t
May 23, 2011
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[Ed Morales] Obama’s immigration speech falls far short
President Obama’s recent speech in El Paso, Texas, addressing America’s broken immigration policy was very disappointing to immigrant advocates, the Latino community and anyone concerned about human rights.He offered only a vague assessment of the issue, and ignored calls by leading Latino politicians, most notably Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Illinois, to use his executive powers to take decisive actio
May 23, 2011
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[David Ignatius] Framework for ‘Arab Spring’ transition
WASHINGTON ― The “Arab Spring” has analysts searching for the right historical comparison. Is it like 1848, and the wave of revolution that swept Europe? Or is it 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall? Or perhaps 1979, and the toppling of the Shah of Iran by Muslim radicals? The democratic uprising of 2011 has elements of all of the above, and the spirit of change mostly has been exhilarating. But
May 23, 2011
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[Harold Meyerson] The U.S.: Where Europe comes to slum
The newest slumlord in Los Angeles is a pillar of German capitalism. Earlier this month, the city attorney’s office filed suit against Deutsche Bank, the world’s fourth-largest bank, for letting many of the more than 2,000 L.A. homes it has foreclosed on descend into squalor and decay.A yearlong city investigation of the properties on which Deutsche Bank foreclosed turned up tenants compelled to l
May 23, 2011
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[Meghan Daum] Comedy stars need to break the raunch barrier
The results are in: “Bridesmaids,” the much-hyped girl-raunch comedy touted as the long-awaited antidote to Judd Apatow’s “bromance” phenomenon, opened way bigger than expected at the box office, thereby proving that women can be just as funny ― and, moreover, sell as many tickets ― as men. (Apatow, it should be noted, is a producer on the film.)Billed in its tagline as evidence that “chick flicks
May 23, 2011
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[Dominique Moisi] Germany becoming Switzerland of EU?
PARIS ― Twenty years ago, in the immediate aftermath of Germany’s reunification, French magazines were full of caricatures of Chancellor Helmut Kohl wearing the traditional pointed Prussian helmet. The new Germany was perceived as a threat to the European balance. Germany was simply “too much” again.German geopolitical ambitions, it was believed, would invariably seek greater proportionality with
May 23, 2011
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Middle East conflict not without hope
The solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is really not so far out of reach. The outlines of a reasonable two-state compromise have long been known, and a couple of reasonable people could work out the remaining details tomorrow. But for stubbornness, cynicism, fear and violence, it probably would have happened years ago. The late Israeli diplomat Abba Eban was speaking of the Arabs when he
May 22, 2011
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[Gregory Rodriguez] Secularism continues to gain ground
Woohoo! Secularism has arrived. That was one reaction to the news that Pitzer College in Claremont, California, is launching a secular studies department.“Well, it’s about time!” wrote an eager academic in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The editor of CNN’s Belief blog didn’t know “whether to be surprised that it happened or surprised that it took so long.”The blog at the conservative journal F
May 22, 2011
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[Ban Ki-moon] Dysfunctional disarmament forum
GENEVA ― As the U.N. Conference on Disarmament begins a seven-week session in Geneva, its future is on the line. Whereas countries and civil-society initiatives are on the move, the conference has stagnated. Its credibility ― indeed, its very legitimacy ― is at risk.The “CD,” as it is informally known, has long served as the world’s only multilateral forum for negotiating disarmament. Its many imp
May 22, 2011
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[Steve Lopez] Schwarzenegger’s lies have a familiar ring
Back in October of 2003, I witnessed a remarkable spectacle at a San Diego rally for gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger. As I talked to people about allegations that Schwarzenegger had crudely groped women against their will, using his celebrity and power to have his way, they were outraged.Not at Schwarzenegger, but at the Los Angeles Times, for reporting the stories.Even after Schwarz
May 22, 2011