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Called Yodok Story, the production is set in one of the most notorious of dictator Kim Jong Il's gulags, which alone houses an estimated 20,000 prisoners, including many jailed for what Pyongyang deems political crimes. If you've heard of Yodok, that's because it has already gained...
When ordinary Filipinos took to the streets in 1986 to overthrow dictator Ferdinand Marcos, they transformed their nation into perhaps the freest in Asia. But last weekend, on the 20th anniversary of the People Power revolution, Filipinos found themselves once again living under the chill of emergency rule. Capping a...
Though Li has rarely returned to her homeland since her departure a decade ago, the best stories in this volume, written in her flawlessly pure and limpid prose, fully capture China's wrenching social changes. In "Extra," Granny Lin finds she has been "honorably retired" from her state-owned garment...
A 2,500-year-old Greek poem extols the power of music to enfold and enlarge Olympic glory. And so in Torino, Italy, the athletes of the world marched into a stadium originally erected by the dictator Benito Mussolini to several ancient tunes, such as Gloria Gaynor's I Will...
But the heating oil project?s biggest diplomatic coup, Alvarez concedes, may be the good will it generates among Americans at a time of deteriorating U.S.-Venezuela relations - strained ever since the Bush Administration was widely accused of backing a failed 2002 coup against Chavez (a charge it denies). Chavez...