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...shooting in the 1950-53 Korean War, a bloody tit-for-tat spy game kept the cold war between Seoul and Pyongyang pretty hot. North Korea sent plenty of spies to the South?sometimes on submarines and speedboats?and their frequent capture made the newspapers and magazines. In contrast, the story of Seoul's secret war of spying, sabotage and assassination was far less publicized. It was a long and costly campaign that left almost 5,000 South Koreans dead or missing in the North according to lawmaker Kim Seong Ho, who has pushed for compensation for ex-spies...
...with his extended family. "They protect us day and night." Since the TNI arrived, many former residents are returning, while local fishermen are again venturing up the river to sell their catch. The village mosque, previously deserted after nightfall, is now bustling. A local TNI lieutenant proudly notes the contrast with East Timor, where he did many tours of duty. "They hated us in East Timor," he says. "Here, they love...
Move over Fox Mulder, here comes Thierry Meyssan. Like the unrelenting FBI hero of the popular X Files TV series, Meyssan is a player in the conspiracy business. But in contrast to the fictional Mulder's sympathetic crusades - one geek's quest to combat a farcical cabal of sociopathic humans and the world-conquering extraterrestrials they serve - Meyssan's campaign has attracted audiences with a singularly despicable suggestion: that the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 were carried out by U.S. government officials as part of a murderous economic and military plot...
...contrast to Bronson, who is a resident of Eliot House and an editor of the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization which used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, Di Capua and Bullock prefer to keep the details of their speeches under wraps...
Steven Soderbergh wants you to see movies the way he sees movies. When he and his cinematographer finish a film, they lift it out of its chemical bath and take it to a projection booth for its first and most perfect screening. The color and contrast are true and bright from edge to edge, free of dust and precisely in focus. "Nobody, including us, ever sees it that good again," says Soderbergh, the Oscar-winning director of Traffic and Erin Brockovich. "Even after that first screening, it's got dirt on it and scratches...