Kim Dong-kwan when he was in the military. Over a month ago the Joongang Ilbo printed an article about a former paratrooper who took part in the Kwangju Uprising. A court has ordered a veterans’ office to grant “National Meritorious Person� status to a 51-year-old man who has suffered from sch...

DHARMSALA, India, March 10 -- Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, told his followers Tuesday that the Tibetan culture, religion and identity face "extinction" and that residents of Tibet were living in "hell on earth."...

DHARMSALA, India, March 10 -- Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, told his followers Tuesday that the Tibetan culture, religion and identity face "extinction" and that residents of Tibet were living in "hell on earth."...

In the wake of releasing Halo Wars , Microsoft's Frank O'Connor has shocked (no one in) the world by saying gamers probably haven't seen the last of Master Chief. Speaking with Game Hunters at USA Today, O'Connor discussed such upcoming releases as Halo 3: ODST , calling it a "detective story" of so...

You might know Thomas Lennon as one of the founding members of the hilarious sketch-comedy troupe The State. You might know him as a scene-stealing co-star in movies like “Balls of Fury� and “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days,� or as the writer of “Herbie Fully Loaded� and the “Night at the...

More like this, please: Hundreds of people trying to save their homes from foreclosure flocked to Connecticut's wealthy Gold Coast this weekend to give financial kingpins a piece of their mind. Homeowners are fed up – and many are frustrated that those who lead the companies that gave them their s...

(Originally appeared on GreenCine's Guru blog.) Ratings (out of 5): Slacker Uprising Movie: **½ DVD (with extras): ***½   Michael Moore is a filmmaker/personality at war with himself. He clearly has an outsized ego -- as is evident by this new documentary, Slacker Uprising chronicling his &qu...

Rebecca Spence writes for the Forward: Etra, 60, a high-powered Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer, has known Bush since the two men were friends at Yale University. Members of the class of 1968, the two pals joined Skull and Bones, the prestigious secret society. The future president even traveled...

The first issue came out August 22 and the second issue came out three months later on November 21. If the rest of the miniseries followed the same 3-month release pattern, the third issue should have come out in February. It didn’t. Marvel Comics has a real problem with following through with...

WIP News Service covered May Day 2008 on extremely tight deadline, but the story which was published in May’s WIP seriously departed from the mission statement of Works in Progress, from human values, and from advocacy for justice. The piece was published without an individual byline, but clearly ...