About Stephen L Carter Stephen L. Carter is a professor of law at Yale, where he teaches courses on contracts, professional responsibility, ethics in literature, intellectual property and the law and ethics of war. More about Stephen L Carter I rise to defend the faculty lounge, that magical idea factory that has become, in the current presidential campaign, an object of unexpected derision. Mitt Romney and his supporters have developed the unfortunate strategy of referring to President Barack Obama as a product of “the faculty lounge.” I would like to appeal to them, respectfully, to stop. Some articles have pointed to the oddity of the swipe against the Democratic incumbent, given Romney’s two Harvard degrees. The problem isn’t the Republican candidate’s resume. It’s his effort ... Continue reading →

By Jin Kyu Kang SEOUL | Thu May 17, 2012 12:12pm BST SEOUL (Reuters) - Unlike his colleagues at a Korean city office, Choi Chang-young dreads the end of each workday, when he is forced to return to his empty, echoing house. "I feel a deep sense of loneliness since neither my wife nor my kids are waiting for me," the 45-year-old administrator said of his home in the city of Cheongju, 120 km (75 miles) south of the capital Seoul. "There is only total darkness."Choi is one of a growing legion of Korean fathers who send their families overseas when the children hit their teens, hoping to help them both escape the pressure-cooker South Korean educational system and learn English - which will help ... Continue reading →

For clues to how the German economy stands out from the European debt crisis, look no further than Champions League finalist Bayern Munich. Germany’s most successful club on the field will go into the match in two days at its own Allianz Arena having not made a loss off it for 19 straight seasons. It plays Chelsea, the English team that’s been propelled to the top of European soccer thanks to more than $1 billion of cash from Roman Abramovich. The Russian oligarch has covered financial losses during every one of the nine years since he bought the London club. “We have always had one philosophy and that’s not to spend more than we generate,” said Bayern Munich Chief Executive Officer Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, among the ... Continue reading →