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...every Baxter, however, there is someone like sociologist Quee-Young Kim, who despite the frustrations of the job market is firmly committed to making it in the academic world. Both Kim and placement director Skocpol lay much of the blame for Kim's initial problems in finding a job on his being a foreigner. Although Kim was one of the department's top-recommended students, Skocpol says, when the job market begins to tighten, Americans tend to hire Americans." Kim finally landed a last-minute appointment at Simmons, but he is, like Hesford, a victim of what McKinney calls...
...indeed, Shultz may be right. Administrators of both programs have found that the intensive week-long programs are attractive to the alumni, who couldn't come for longer periods because they can't leave their jobs or their children. Kim M. Anway, the coordinator for this year's Harvard alumni college, says that an experimental program taught by Edwin O. Reischauer several years ago lasted ten days, but that both the participants and the faculty involved found it too long and intensive. Nancy R. Downey, who directs the Radcliffe Institute's alumni program says that a week seems...
...center of North Korean life looms Kim, head of both government and party and the most durable Communist leader except for Albania's Enver Hoxha (32 years in power to Kim's 30) and Yugoslavia's Tito (32 years). Pictures of the grinning, moonfaced leader are everywhere. Children reverently call him "our father," party officials refer to him as "the sun of our nation" and brides and grooms vow loyalty to him at wedding ceremonies. In Pyongyang, the 95 rooms and 2½ miles of exhibits at the Museum of the Korean Revolution glorify every aspect...
...Kim originally derived his power from the Soviets. Until the Japanese surrender ended World War II, Kim had been a relatively minor figure in the Korean nationalist movement. But with Soviet backing, Kim easily eliminated rivals within both the nationalist and Communist organizations-often by having them shot...
Cronies and Aunts. Today, Kim still appears to retain absolute power. Top government and party posts are dominated by trusted old cronies and relatives. His brother sits in the Politburo, while his wife is chairwoman of the Central Committee of the Women's League. A host of nieces and aunts hold high posts in that organization. The only challenge to Kim may be health: there have been rumors that he suffers from a malignant tumor in his neck...