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...spent in North Korea in 2001, prior to September 11, supervising work on a French TV cartoon outsourced to inexpensive North Korean animators. His expectations are indicated by two of the items in his baggage: a copy of George Orwell's 1984 and a clandestine AM/FM radio. Those expectations appear to be immediately validated when, at the airport, he can't make out anyone's face because the lights are off. Delisle soon learns that the lights stay off throughout most of the city, to save on power, except when they illuminate huge monuments dedicated to the country's father...
...anecdotes on the life of a foreigner in what may be the most hyper-controlled society in the world. One typically smart sequence examines the ubiquitous side-by-side portraits of the leader Kim Jong-Il and his dead-but-technically-still-in-charge father Kim Il-Sung. They appear in every single room, ?except in the shitters of course.? He notes how both men have been made to look nearly identical, "same size, same age, same suit. That way nothing ever changes. It's always the same head at the helm." He even notices that the portraits always tilt...
Hammonds said she told yesterday’s meeting of the Faculty Council, FAS’s 18-member governing body, that her staff is in the process of surveying junior faculty members, as recommended by the task forces, and that the survey results will appear in the spring...
Military recruiters are scheduled to appear on the Law School campus on October 6 and October 12, Sorkin said, and he added, “We’re not just going to sit back and take...
...example, all humans are capable of learning to speak a complex language, whereas chimpanzees appear to be fundamentally unable to do so,” he wrote...