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...decision to give South Korean dissident Kim Dae Jung a fellowship last spring from the prestigious fellows program at Harvard's Center for International Affairs is another chapter in the controversial relationship that Harvard has had with South Korea Most memorably, the University accepted a $1 million dollar contribution from a South Korean government organization which prompted a debate about whether it was proper to take money from the authoritarian regime...
...Korea there is a joke about Kim Dae Jung. It says that as difficult as it is to save a life, in Kim's case it is difficult to die. Sitting in his small office on the fourth floor of Harvard's Center for International Affairs, Kim chuckles as he explains the joke. There have been several serious attempts on his life since he became an opposition leader and advocate of democracy in South Korean politics in the 1960s...
...been marked for death, Kim looks very well; but as he rises to answer a phone call, he walks with a stiffness in his hips that is the result of a car accident in South Korea which he says was staged to kill him, and did kill three people in the car behind...
...Kim's participation in Korean politics began when he was elected to the National Assembly. In 1961, he had become such a prominent member of the Korean National Assembly that he was imprisoned after General Park Chung Hee staged a military coup...
Involving parents in sex education is a major emphasis of the week. "Everyone agrees that parents should be the primary sexuality educators of their children, but who is preparing them for this role?" said Kim DeAndrade of Cambridge Family Planning, joint sponsors of the week with the Department of Human Services...