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Accidental crimes on the rise in South Korea?

Updated: Korea Herald, April 24, 2013  The key numbers here (from yesterday's Korea Herald ) in an article about rape in Korea. * In 2011: 22,034 rapes were reported, according to the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office in Korea. * Of those, 18,591 cases resulted in arrests with a total of 18,880 offenders being convicted. *Only 12 percent of those found guilty, or 2,289, were sentenced to jail time. * Based on a 2010 survey by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, it is believed that the sexual crime reporting rate in Korea is about 10 percent. The article provides some information about what to do after getting raped, phone numbers to call. I don't mean to dismiss those things, but obviously the reporter ran out of space addressing: "How to protect yourself" or "How to reduce the chance you'll be raped." Sun-Flower Women and Children’s Centerl. (Lee Sang-sub/The Korea Herald) This site (in an article written by James Fenske) advises: * B

Walter E. Williams on Rush Limbaugh

Professor Walter E. Williams will be hosting the Rush Limbaugh Show 8/24/10 from noon-3 p.m. EST. Thomas Sowell will be his featured guest the second hour. In case you can't hear the show or can't wait, you can listen to me interview him back in 2007 (hit the free user button, wait for countdown, then download). We discussed reparations for slavery during one show and the minimum wage on another. By the way, I was really thankful that he agreed to be on my show twice during the three months I was on the air. I interviewed him another time when I was a guest host and he interviewed me on the Rush Limbaugh about a paper I wrote about education in Washington, D.C. When I contacted him and told him that I was going to have my own show and that I would be delighted if he would come on from time to time, he hesitated at first. I waited. He then said it would be okay. I know he won't do anything if it is inconvenient for himself, so I asked if there was a conflict. He said he had

Memorandum 46

The Root lists its top 10 racial conspiracy theories . How can there be a list of racial conspiracy theories on a black website without Memorandum 46 being highlighted, if not #1 on the list? Here's the memo . Here's a piece Eliot Morgan and I wrote about it in 2007. Here's a rebuttal from Rev. Walter E. Fauntroy, a former member of Congress. CJL