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...ability to control its citizens appears undiminished. This summer, North Korea launched a sweeping crackdown on illegal bootleg videos of South Korean TV dramas now flooding into the country from China, according to North Korean defectors. In May, Kim took another big step back from greater openness when he shut down North Korea's new cell-phone system. That order came a month after a train mysteriously exploded in Ryongchon station, near the northern border, within hours of Kim's expected passage through the town on his way back from a trip to China. "Kim is still in control," said...
Most of campus shut down for Thanksgiving break, as students left town to visit family and friends. But those whose homes are too far away joined athletes and others on a quiet campus...
When swiveled shut, the 710 looks like one of Sony's Cyber-shot cameras. It shoots like one too, with 1megapixel resolution and a slot for a Memory Stick card...
...Alice become a couple, then Anna and Larry, then Dan and Anna and, briefly, Larry and Alice. We are shown only the beginning and end of each affair, when hopes are surging or betrayal sours the air. The piece is a series of cardiograms: hearts open and shut down. "Have you ever seen a human heart?" says Larry, a doctor. "It looks like a fist soaked in blood...
Hollings: The women [Senators] have made a material change. [In the late 1960s] we had one gal, Margaret Chase Smith. You'd never hear from her. Now you can't shut them up. We've got 14, and they're outstanding...