Quotations of the day

Even a clever president, if he is put in a tree and the tree is shaken, will fall from it. (A donga.com netizen on Tuesday, contending that recent media criticism of President Kim Dae-Jung was too harsh.)

Harvard University isn't better than Seoul National University. (A donga.com netizen, on Tuesday, referring to news reports that a high school student who is said to have failed the entrance examination for SNU was admitted to Harvard.)

Reservations for admission tickets will be made by lottery. (Officials of the new casino located near the abandoned mine in Chongson, Kangwon Province, disclosing that the casino had decided to introduce a lottery system for distributing admission tickets in order to prevent confusion and ticket scalping.)

Crows are reappearing, as the common saying that the birds¡¯ flesh is good for stamina proved not to be true. (An official of the Kunsan city government on Tuesday, observing that crows, which had disappeared for several years due to contaminated fields and reckless hunting, had been seen again in the Honam plain and even in Kunsan itself.)