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...government finally allowed them to leave with the excuse that they needed foreign medical care. It's the latest chapter in a dramatic ordeal for the family. Fifteen members had crossed the border to China by 1999. One boy, Jang Gil Su, then acquired anonymous fame through his crayon depictions of life in North Korea. The simple, cartoon-like pictures showed confessions from prisoners and a starving man cooking human body parts in a big pot. Smuggled into South Korea and published in a book, they generated tremendous sympathy. Jang's life since then has given him new and terrible...
...down shortly thereafter (Hera is still awaiting her fate), but it was the dogs' owners, Robert Noel and Marjorie Knoller, who attracted most of the attention. It was later revealed that they had a close relationship with Paul ("Cornfed") Schneider, an Aryan supremacist, accomplished knife fighter and crayon artist serving a life term in California's maximum-security Pelican Bay prison. According to prison authorities, Schneider--who covers his cell with pictures of furry animals--has been directing the raising of attack dogs from behind bars. Noel and Knoller got their pets from one of Schneider's pen pals...
Balloting must be standardized. Clearly, this has got out of hand. The Republicans have proposed that people vote by circling their favorite candidate's photograph with a crayon. The Democratic offer the suggestion that whatever votes are cast be recounted until their candidate wins. In honor of the Democratic candidate's inventive public service, I advocate that voting be conducted over the Internet...
...Indeed, color seems to have had its way with these artists; each piece is a miniature explosion against the gallery's stark white walls. The blues in the paintings are lovely, though underused and overshadowed by duller oranges and greens. Butterly's glazes would make a Crayola crayon envious, as well they should after a reported 15 firings...
...There is, of course, an elaborate museum of the disaster. I found its walls decorated with grisly photographs from August 1945, and crayon drawings that children had done to depict the blast and horror. The Japanese bring schoolchildren by the thousands to see the museum, that they might remember. One bright-faced little boy smiled at me (I was obviously an American) and, practicing his English, chirped: "Murderer! Hello...