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...decade ago, they "won't speak to journalists without permission," says Lankov. Even at the joint South and North Korean industrial complex at Kaesong, just north of the Demilitarized Zone, journalists don't really expect to land interviews with regular North Koreans, says Voice of America's Kurt Achin, who was part of a press tour there about two years ago. (See pictures of the reportedly ailing Kim Jong Il, doctored by his government...
...explosive economic growth. But today, Congress has atrophied into a party bereft of fresh people and ideas, and one that also appears lamentably out of sync with India's new dynamism. "What this election is about is whether we see the historic collapse of Congress," says politics expert Professor Achin Vanaik of New Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia university. "It's about whether the vote kills Congress...
...computer-animated film A Bug's Life. Lasseter's tale of greedy grasshoppers and anxious ants broke the Thanksgiving holiday box-office records with $45.7 million in ticket sales and slaughtered its main competitor, Babe: Pig in the City. Hollywood, skeptical before the release, took note. BUGS LEAVE BACON ACHIN', Daily Variety snorted merrily...
...album, In Pieces, Brooks has made one of his worst decisions by recording a misguided anthem titled American Honky-Tonk Bar Association. In this song, over a beat as rambunctious as a mechanical bull, this most favored of country stylists asks listeners to join with the "hardhat, gunrack, achin'-back, over-taxed, flag-wavin' fun-lovin' crowd," especially if they're upset when their "dollar goes to all of those standing in a welfare line...
...would chalk it up to a cheap publicity stunt--very cheap," Achin said...