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...peninsula. Trying to pressure North Korea by cutting off aid has in the past had little apparent effect on Pyongyang's policies and tactics. Kim's regime shrugs off the suffering of its citizens and the government has proved surprisingly resilient. China, the North's ally and biggest trading partner, keeps the regime supplied with aid and trade. If geopolitics once again gets in the way of feeding the hungry, says Nam Sung Wook, a North Korea expert at Korea University, "it's average North Koreans who are going to get squeezed...
After 15 years together, my male partner and I are just friends, but I love him dearly. I feel he's given me the best years of his youth, and I have left everything to him in a will. I want to avoid probate, but our condo, worth about $350,000, is in my name. I don't want to add him, as I am afraid that if our lives go in different directions, he will force me to sell. I'm 59, four years from retirement and plan to sell and move to a smaller house in New Mexico...
...addition to what you'll need just to live. Not only that, if you do fall seriously ill, you'll want the best medical care you can afford. Still, you are absolutely right to shun probate in California: it costs your heirs a bundle. But if you leave your partner your house and money in a will, probate is just what you'll get, say California attorneys. Michael Gilfix, a Palo Alto, Calif., estate-planning and elder-law attorney, recommends putting everything you own (except your 401(k), which goes directly to the beneficiary you name) into a revocable trust...
...injury, Wan informed his proctor that Murstein had faked the whole theft just to collect the insurance money for what Wan claimed was Murstein’s drug habit. Wan confessed to making up the whole story. Murstein collected his second stolen computer from Wan’s partner in crime, Michael D. Wang ’05-’06. Both Wan—at the time a member of the varsity tennis team—and Wang left Harvard for three and two years, respectively...
Conrad K. Harper, a 1965 graduate of the Law School and a partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York, has long harbored serious qualms about Summers, according to several current and former Harvard officials familiar with the Corporation. Harper has been particularly critical of Summers’ abrasive management style and made those objections clear during the presidential search, say the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity...