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...also might be that Hwang's team couldn't recover quickly enough and began taking shortcuts to fill the gap. Under pressure from the government and the university, and with a deadline looming for publication in one of the world's most prestigious journals, the temptation to stretch the truth might have been irresistible. "I can only speculate that Dr. Hwang was driven by ambition. He may have thought he could manipulate the data to secure research funding and compensate for his actions with follow-up results," says Ki Jung Kim, a political scientist at Seoul's Yonsei University...
...hope Munich is a big success. The story of the Israeli athletes who were murdered should never be forgotten. I wish there were more brave people like Spielberg. He is willing to tell the truth in his movies and make a difference...
...Hwang highlights the obvious truth that outside powers have inflicted great harm upon Korea, playing a major role in its painful division. But to a foreign reader his apparent conviction that the malign influence of Westerners should absolve Korean participants of their own guilt in the bloodshed is perplexing. This sentiment?it could be summed up as "the foreign devils made them do it"?may be comforting to Korean readers eager to overcome the burdens of their tortured history. But Hwang's determination to smooth over the ugliness of the past may doom his book to a far less enthusiastic...
...Williams said that he was glad that the media attention helped the truth of the matter emerge. Now, he said, the concerns that the student’s original account raised on the UMass-Dartmouth campus have been put to rest...
...Williams said that he and Pontbriand both have moderate views and only wanted to find out the truth about the student’s story. The media coverage of the student’s tale began when Williams mentioned what he had heard about the incident as a side note to a reporter who was interviewing him about President Bush’s authorization of domestic wiretapping, Williams said. The story then became the reporter’s lead, he said...