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...become even more iconic than in life. His picture hangs in shop windows across the northern Afghan capital of Mazar-i-Sharif and is pasted in the windshields of Alliance pickups and jeeps. Along every street those calm, hooded eyes gaze out from their baggy sockets. He's the Che Guevara of northern Afghanistan, its Mandela, Marley, JFK. (Nearly anyone you ask can recall where he or she was when the news of his assassination broke.) Not merely because Massoud was a famed fighter or a charismatic leader?but because he had a vision of a unified, representative government...
...week. Many saw it as a pact with the devil. In 1961, J.P. (as he is known) had set up the notorious Korean Central Intelligence Agency, which harassed the future President and regularly interrogated and tortured his aides. (J.P. was Prime Minister when Kim was kidnapped.) Says Kang Young Che, a speechwriter and translator for Kim in the early '70s: "He is an opportunist...
...brunt of tick falls, though, on the actor playing Larson, and in the lead role, Raul Esparza was an absolute revelation; he is now my favorite musical theater performer. This was not the first time I saw Esparza on stage—I was impressed by his turn as Che in the 20th anniversary tour of Evita that played Boston two summers ago and was wowed by his Riff-Raff in Rocky Horror—but as Jonathan he displayed such vocal power and genuine vulnerability, that there was no way I could pull my eyes off of him. Esparza...
...first take a stroll from the hotel through gorgeous, weather-worn Old Havana, where many of the palaces and plazas date from the 16th and 17th centuries. Highlights include the Teatro Nacional and Plaza de la Catedral, with its nearby open-air market for Che berets and other tourist kitsch. For a brush with real Cubans and a sense of the island's emerging private economy, stroll over to Cuatro Caminos, a farmers' market and photographers' paradise full of colorful fruits, flowers and the ever whimsical fly-covered goat heads...
...finally bored myself to sleep" b) "I won't faint again" c) "I saw Che. He said the pork in heaven is sweeter" d) "I'm so sorry, I thought I saw Jenna Elfman in the audience...