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...find Jeon's name on its POW list. Jeon was arrested by the Chinese and nearly sent back to North Korea. South Korean activists played a taped plea by Lee on an evening news program, and Seoul intervened with Beijing. Jeon finally got home to South Korea last Christmas Eve. But while he was held in a Chinese jail, his son was arrested and shipped back to North Korea and his daughter-in-law and her mother disappeared, possibly seized by traffickers...
...that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum." David Hasselhoff, star of American TV hit Baywatch and singer, disappointed that his name has no place among museum memorabilia despite his live performance on top of the Berlin Wall on New Year's Eve...
...Christmas Eve, another copy of Samurai appeared online and was traced back to a screener that had been sent to Oscar voters. Since Warner Bros. gave out only VHS copies, the bootleg was not of great quality. But its existence is an embarrassment after a year of high-profile debate over the risks of screeners--a beloved industry perk. Valenti of the M.P.A.A. had pushed hard to fight piracy by banning all screeners outright. But independent studios complained the ban would penalize small movies trying to get award nominations. In December the U.S. district court overturned the ban. Last week...
...lists, with identifying information," Asa Hutchinson, Under Secretary of Homeland Security, tells TIME. Too often, he says, "we get the final names and additional information like passport numbers as the doors close." That means any terrorist threat becomes apparent only after the plane takes off. On New Year's Eve, for example, U.S. intelligence got word that terrorists might have targeted British Airways Flight 223--but only after it was on its way to Washington. Between 80 and 90 passenger names were then singled out for scrutiny because they matched or were similar to those on various watch lists...
...Amherst Regional High School in Amherst, Mass. The local school board and superintendent last month approved a student request to stage The Vagina Monologues the night before Valentine's Day as part of a national campaign to call attention to violence against women. The theater piece, written by Eve Ensler, has played off-Broadway and in all-star benefits around the country and the world on Valentine's Day for the past six years. But this is believed to be the first sanctioned high school performance of the play, a collection of readings on such topics as homosexuality, rape...