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...finest musicians to play. The buses that transported the orchestra, staff and some 80 foreign journalists (three times the number that accompanied then Secretary of State Madeline Albright for her meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in late 2000) rolled past building after building that was unlit in the late afternoon gloom; pedestrians on the streets stared as the fleet of buses rolled into the heart of energy-starved Pyongyang. Every half kilometer or so along a 25-kilometer route into town, female traffic cops stood stiffly at attention, wearing fur-lined hats and carrying batons they could...
...that at Virginia Tech always hits a wall. We can debate, as we predictably do in these cases, what an incident like this means for our endless national argument about guns and violence and the coarsening of the culture. That's well-mapped ground. What remains uncharted is the unlit places in the minds of the people who are capable of doing these things - and, by extension, in all our minds. What is it that makes individual members of a usually empathetic species turn rogue? How does one of our most primal faculties - the ability to understand that things that...
...hundreds of students began filing down the steps of the War Memorial Chapel toward the drill field. Propped against a tree with a box of unlit candles at its base, the sign wavered in the wind. Clusters of two and three students stood together in silence. Slowly they began to line up to sign the board. ?You are in our prayers. We hurt for you. We will remember you forever,' signed one mourner in silver marker. "I'm still really in disbelief," says Stiltner. The shock of the day's shootings sank in, Hess said, as he carried the sign...
...heavily guarded and sealed-off headquarters in Beirut's southern suburbs was completely destroyed by multiple Israeli air strikes, and with its leaders still under the threat of assassination by Israel, security around them is tight. To reach Qassem, this reporter was driven by Hizballah security personnel into an unlit basement of a building then bundled into a minibus with blacked-out windows and driven around the southern suburbs for half an hour. Twice the minibus drove into a basement and waited to see it was being tailed before continuing to its destination...
...this regime's own ruthless standards. That night, Suu Kyi, 57, was traveling with 300 followers in a motorcade of cars and motorbikes on a meet-the-people tour to rally support for her political party, the National League for Democracy (NLD). As her convoy weaved down an unlit country road near the hamlet of Depayin in northern Burma, it arrived at a narrow bridge over an irrigation ditch. "It's a choke point," says a Western diplomat, "the perfect place for an ambush...