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Anecdotal reports leaking out of the country suggest that life for some North Koreans is returning to the dark days of the 1990s famines. Families have been scavenging for wild roots and plants to supplement meager diets. Many children have stopped attending school because of hunger, while their parents are choosing to spend their days searching for food rather than show up for work. "So far, not many people are dying compared to the 1990s, but the situation is still bad," says Ham Myoung Sam, a manager with the Seoul-based aid group Korea Food for the Hungry International...
...attempt to address issues that concern us today, the Visiting Faculty Exhibit at the Carpenter Center, on display through October 23, combines digitally altered stills, free-standing sculptures, dark animations, and an interpretation of a 1976 film. It is, in the words of special projects manager Tracy Blanchard, a show that “contemplates the intersections between contemporary art and contemporary technologies to address contemporary concerns...
...dark and black comedy from the 70s, yet it is very relevant of the issues today,” Biggers says. “I think this piece, for me, is about the presence the media has in our lives.” While Biggers believes that the media uses people to gain power, he also thinks people use media to gain power...
...nuclear program. (The U.S. has made clear to the Israelis that getting into a war with Iran is the proverbial bridge too far, and that Washington therefore won't support or enable an Israeli military strike on the Islamic Republic.) But, again, Americans don't understand the Alawites' dark insecurity - and the fact that they will risk war with Israel if they believe their survival requires...
...dark horses of the Ivy League have galloped out into the light.On a miserable afternoon last Saturday, torrential downpours throughout the Northeast seemed to wash away the old guard of the Ancient Eight and create an opening for a new order.Harvard and Yale–the two Ivy giants that tied for first in the preseason Ivy League media poll and seemed poise to cruise through conference play en route to another battle of the titans at The Game in Week 10–were toppled by a pair of league upstarts that refused to be overlooked.The Crimson...