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...Until Azaleas Bloom (1996) By: Shin Young Hee, a dancer who performed at Kim's parties Dirt: Kim stages drinking contests, sometimes involving beer spiked with urine. Winners sometimes receive a car or a piano...
...Escape Is Not Over (1989) By: Choi Un Hee and Shin Sang Ok, a South Korean actress and director, respectively, kidnapped by Kim in 1978 Dirt: The height-challenged leader refers to himself as "small as a midget's turd...
...strapped carbine. The children who normally would have swarmed the beaches to greet the Senegalese presidential yacht, were kept well out of sight, behind ubiquitous metal cordons. To brighten their penning they draped the bars of the barren blockades with intensely colored local tapestries and played soccer in the dirt courtyard while they waited...
...Back at Pho Phra Doh, Boonma hobbles off down a dirt track and stops with a triumphant smile before a ramshackle hut. A muscular Karen tribesman emerges, squints, then breaks into a smile. "It's the doctor," shouts the Karen, who introduces himself as Kanong. The last time they met, Kanong was a 13-year-old communist fighter. An old man appears, and Kanong says, "This is Noo, my father. Remember?" Boonma does. It's hard to forget someone who once held a gun under your chin. They shake hands. "No hard feelings," says Noo. "You're welcome here...
...better able to predict where the untapped wells are located. Still, searching underground is painstaking work. But though this one-hectare clearing in the Grosseto province has so far come up empty, the Enel team is confident from the geological findings that they are about to hit pay dirt. The other key advances are aimed above ground. Local opposition to geothermal projects in Tuscany is growing because the tourism industry is booming, and property owners have begun to organize not-in-my-backyard campaigns to prevent anything spoiling the idyllic landscape. And rising real estate prices crimp on Enel...