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Update here. Earlier here, here and here.

FP Passport has a short, neat summary on the next Secretary General of the United Nations – likely a South Korean but perhaps should have been an Indian. The U.S. is rumored to have made the wrong call.

Oh, and, the other day, when I flew back from Miami, we stopped at Beverly Soon (for the first time) to try their take on soon doo-boo jji-gae. Perfectly fine. But, the real treat that day – which almost brought a tear of joy to my eye – was the sight of the employees – half of them Korean, the other Mexican, all Americans – sitting down for their late lunch.

Guess who was eating bulgogi tacos? The Koreans.

Welcome to the future.

The Changing World is a new-ish and excellent radio program. Their installment about the U.S.-Mexico border is one of the best synopses of that long and complicated story. (It’s an mp3.)

Times of London:

In one of the few comprehensive surveys of how many Iraqis have fled their country since the US invasion, the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants said last month that there were 644,500 refugees in Syria and Jordan in 2005 — about 2.5 per cent of Iraq’s population. In total, 889,000 Iraqis had moved abroad, creating “the biggest new flow of refugees in the world.”

Title and link from Billmon

As per my earlier post that the Greyhound bus has already left the station on Hispanic integration, I found the following on iTunes: