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...Frank suggests that trimming Kim Jong Il's personality cult could be a sign that the country is paving the way for economic reforms and possibly for a more collective form of leadership. If that's the case, then removing Kim's portraits from public places may be more a sign of strength than of weakness. Besides, the regime's ability to control its citizens appears undiminished. This summer, North Korea launched a sweeping crackdown on illegal bootleg videos of South Korean TV dramas now flooding into the country from China, according to North Korean defectors. In May, Kim took...
...victory—Harvard coach Frank Sullivan’s record-tying 142nd while at Harvard—saw the Crimson (1-2) reverse a trend from the first two games of the year. In losses to Notre Dame and Holy Cross, the Crimson fought back to forge ties during the second half, only to watch the game slip away...
...What a talented, talented frontcourt player,” Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said. “We had no clue who he was [or] how good he was, only that there was a chance that this kid was going to be in the game. They’ve got a terrific young player there...
DIED. BOBBY FRANK CHERRY, 74, former Ku Klux Klan member convicted in 2002 for the deadly 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala.; of cancer; at the Kilby Correctional Facility near Montgomery. The attack, which followed the desegregation of Birmingham's schools and for which two of Cherry's associates were also convicted, killed four black girls...
...bring black students up to par will divert resources from other students. Accordingly, the phrases "African American" and "minority" are absent from the titles and mission statements of the various initiatives, and the programs are open to all underachieving students. Many teachers are simply ill at ease with the frank public conversations on race that the new strategies sometimes require. To assuage those anxieties, Fornero has hired Deborah Harmon, an African-American education professor from nearby Eastern Michigan University and the mother of two kids who have attended the Ann Arbor schools, to lead teachers and administrators through a cultural...