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...North Korea, and on July 18 he was flown to Tokyo. While in a hospital there, Jenkins announced that when he was well, he would turn himself in to the U.S. Army. On Sept. 11, Jenkins presented himself at the gates of Camp Zama, a U.S. Army base about an hour's drive from Tokyo. He approached Lieut. Colonel Paul Nigara, provost marshal of the U.S. Army Japan, briskly saluted and said, "Sir, I'm Sergeant Jenkins, and I'm reporting." The longest-missing deserter ever to return to the U.S. Army, he was initially charged with one count...
...Jenkins family lives in standard-issue enlisted-family housing in Camp Zama. When Jenkins is officially discharged from active duty and released from the U.S. base, he plans to settle down in his wife's hometown on Japan's Sado Island. He wants to work, and the local mayor's office has said it will try to help him find a job, although it's unclear what work Jenkins could do, especially since he doesn't speak Japanese. His wife already works at city hall and receives a government stipend every month in a program benefiting North Korean kidnapping victims...
...Chen hopes he gets two thumbs up, too. Taiwan's 16 million voters fall broadly into two categories: those who see Taiwan's future as going it alone-the DPP's chief constituency-and those who don't want to provoke China by promoting independence for Taiwan-the traditional base for the DPP's archrival, the Kuomintang (KMT). But if Taoyuan voter Chou Hui-mei, a 45-year-old furniture importer, is anything to go by, Chen's strategy is having some success bridging that ideological gap. Chou's parents were mainlanders who fled to the island along with Chiang...
...enters the arena at this particular moment, with Democrats yet again pondering their fate. The Washington donkeys seem exhausted by the Kerry loss, lacking the energy for their usual intramural vilification. The left traditionally screams that the party lost because it didn't feed enough red meat to its base, but that argument doesn't work this time-the base turned out in droves. Instead, there seems to be a tacit understanding that far too many members of the Democrats' supposed natural constituency, the middle class, voted Republican because of national security and "values" issues. There is hope that Reid...
Local band Jericho starts off the night with punk. Next comes Lock and Key. Their symbol is a chainsaw—let’s just leave it at that and follow up with Crisis Bureau, whose original hard rock is appealing even outside the typical fan base. Upstairs at the Middle East. 9 p.m. For audiences 18+. Tickets...