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With one hand lifting up the falling sky, with the other holding up a glinting scimitar, by one lightning stroke he shakes the whole earth." Thus, in language that might have made Mao Tse-tung blush, does one popular song in North Korea stress the godlike omnipotence of President Kim II Sung, 67. As shrewd and tough as he is vainglorious, Kim since 1948 has been the dictator of a belligerent, doctrinaire state that for sheer xenophobia is rivaled only by Albania inside the Communist world. In pursuit of his goal of reuniting the Korean peninsula under his rule...
...George Jackson, president of the Harvard Black Student Athletes Association, will also have reason to shine with pride; for the first blow stuck will symbolize the successful completion of an odyssey in boxing promotion that would make Don King blush with envy...
...Worse, del Rio occasionally slips into heated leftist polemic and embarrassing overpraise of his hero. At one point, he credits Marx singlehanded with now making possible "what was impossible for 20 centuries: freedom from the exploitation of man by man''-a claim inaccurate enough to bring a blush even to the cheeks of devoted Marxist scholars...
...doorway, her loosely tied sleeping bag unrolling all over her arms. "Not too optimistic, eh?" a passing male snickers, suggestively eying the bag. "Maybe," she answers lightly. But she can't quite pull it off. Between the sleeping bag and her uncertainty, a thin red blush swims up over her face. Clearly, life was easier in some ways when girls were expected to sleep in separate quarters...
...colleagues and will attend only as a member of a papal commission. The bishops of impoverished Guatemala appointed the head of the Helena Rubinstein branch as one of the non-episcopal delegates, which led Mexico's respected journal Proceso to fume, "Without any need of cosmetics, Christians everywhere blush at this insult." Dissidents who were not included in the meeting are encamped at Puebla for what amounts to a countermeeting, which they call CELAM 2½. The press corps and international observers number more than...