
EDITORS DESK COLUMN
I’ll begin this column in MidWeek‘s 25th anniversary issue with the same anecdote I shared in my first column as MidWeek‘s editor in November 1994.
Read Column>>LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
A cartoonish view
Here’s a question for Rick Hamada: Is there a point at which public services deteriorate so much that you would actually favor a tax increase to remedy the situation?
EDITORS DESK IN KOREA
The following is adapted from a presentation I gave during the colloquium portion of the Korea-U.S. Journalists’ Exchange Program at the East-West Center on August 1.
Read Column>>The smartest thing North Korean dictator Kim Jung- II ever did — and he’s done far more than most people give him credit for — was to mass his artillery along the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and aim it at Seoul. This was the opinion expressed by a Korea expert on the staff of the Commander-U.S. Pacific Command at Camp Smith, who briefed me before I left for Korea.
Read Column>>It was after being in South Korea for just a week — and more specifically after just a few shots of soju, a goes-down-easy distilled sweet potato liquor, at a seafood restaurant in Busan — that I announced to our hosts: “I love Korea!”
Read Column>>This is the third of a three-part series based on an East-West Center fellowship and being part of the first Korea-U.S. Journalists’ Exchange Program.
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