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...official in Seoul tells TIME that South Korea will allow the disbursement of economic aid to the North "in parallel" with the progress North Korea makes on denuclearization. The official says this has always been Lee Myung Bak's policy, and it's not likely that there is any daylight between Washington and Seoul on this issue. (See pictures of the border between the Koreas...
...many Filipinos, the seizure of Channel 4 was one of the most remarkable events of an endlessly astonishing week. Feb. 25 was a day of twin inaugurals. Aquino had wanted a daylight ceremony because, as she said in her address, "it is fitting and proper that, as the rights and liberties of our people were taken away at midnight 14 years ago [when martial law was declared], the people should formally recover those rights and liberties in the full light of day." An hour later Ferdinand Marcos stepped onto the balcony at Malacañang Palace before a crowd...
...Milan. Some Mafia experts believe the Mob's decision to take its battle to the mainland was a response to the breakdown in longstanding attempts by certain government authorities to negotiate a truce with mob leaders. Indeed, after Riina's years on the lam, his arrest, in broad daylight in central Palermo, was itself a sign to many that someone had been playing a double game. (Read a TIME cover story on the Mafia...
...sister was having an affair with Joe. That's what she [told] me. She looked so nervous and she was so young-looking. She was 17, and I was 37. She just looked like a little kid. I was incredulous. I wasn't mad or upset. It was broad daylight and [noon] on a Tuesday, and lawnmowers are going and cars are driving by, and she's telling me her little sister is having an affair. There was never an indication that she was going to harm me. When I turned to go into the house, the last thing...
...that no amount of marimba music can brighten. Rich and poor communities alike are surrounded by walls topped with enough razor wire and rifle-toting guards to look like penitentiaries. This year tandem motorcycle-riding was banned because it was such a popular M.O. for drive-by shootings, and daylight saving time was canceled because the dark mornings created too many opportunities for foul play. Even so, bus drivers face being killed by armed extortionists during rush hour, and lawyers who complain about government corruption can turn up under the bougainvilleas with a few bullets to the head...