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...spectacle of Roh's impeachment puts paid to any notion that the country's constitutional democracy has grown sturdy roots. The National Assembly is dominated by two opposition parties that loathe the current occupant of the Blue House. They voted to suspend the elected President on the flimsiest of pretexts. Officially, the offenses for which Roh is to be tried?and for which he is already being punished?are some otherwise innocuous comments about the upcoming April 15 National Assembly election. Roh, who had renounced his membership of the ruling Millennium Democratic Party last fall, let it be known that...
Looking back at the notion of “empire,” the historians argued that empire is damaging to the native populations of colonies. But Ferguson, author of the forthcoming Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire, said the overall effect of the British empire was positive...
Reflecting on the current political climate, Gergen said the conventional notion in presidential elections of appealing to the base in primaries and to the center in the general election has recently been challenged by the idea of focusing on the base throughout the whole process due to greater partisanship and the even division...
Professor Janet Beizer, a fellow of Jardine’s in the Romance Languages and Literatures department, calls the book a monumental text. “She reads women and [the notion of] the feminine across cultures, languages, across genders, across oceans,” she says...
...Foreign Policy article—headlined “Jose, Can You See?”—Huntington casts doubt on the notion that Mexicans will follow the path of upward mobility traced by earlier immigrant groups...