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We were deposited in Yanggakdo International Hotel, a 47-story structure that sits on an island in Pyongyang's Taedong River and abuts a nine-hole golf course, where I imagine it's pretty easy to get a tee time. The hotel is in an isolated spot, far from the...
T wo weeks ago in Oxnard, Calif., Lawrence King—an eighth-grader who had recently come out as gay and had begun wearing makeup and dressing like a woman—was shot in the head by a 14-year-old classmate. While crimes motivated by homophobia are...
Every Harvard student knows the freshman week routine. You meet, you shake hands, you ask the usual questions about concentrations, dorms, and roommates. Inevitably, someone asks: where are you from? For some students, the answer is complicated.When Melusi A. Dlamini ’10 tells people that he?...
What they'll see may be startling. Climate change has already refashioned the geography of the Arctic, melting glaciers that past adventurers - not to mention the Inuit who make their home in the far north - once journeyed on securely. On a 1995 Arctic expedition, Steger had his own close encounter...
If you were stranded in a foreign land, with little idea where you were or where you were headed, what would you do? Flirt with a stranger, of course. “Do you like Chet Baker?” the Egyptian man in a police uniform asks the lady...