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...defector from a powerful North Korean family. More news from the outside world is leaking into the country across the northern border with China, and some North Koreans are starting to realize they have been duped. But when citizens waver in their loyalty, Kim has a repressive machine to equal Saddam's. An estimated 200,000 North Koreans are locked away in remote gulags. Those seen as enemies of the state vanish in middle-of-the-night raids. Refugees attempting to return from China have been caught and publicly executed...
...waiting for a shot at the summit are degrading a once pristine environment. In Hillary's day, teams of top climbers were handpicked by prestigious bodies such as the Royal Geographical Society. Today, an overweight globe-trotter with more money than experience and a little-known blind guy have equal access. The door to Everest's slopes has been blown wide open, and some critics speak of the death of great adventures...
...ideologues aren’t admitting that it’s the war, not just Bush, which is popular with Americans. Pre-war CNN polls showed that more than 60 percent of Americans supported military intervention in Iraq, on par with Bush’s approval ratings. The roughly equal percentages make sense. Bush can serve his political ambitions only by catering to the electorate; if the war did indeed serve Bush’s personal aspirations, it must also have been a war that most Americans believed was just. In our democracy, ambition can’t subordinate...
DIED. MARTHA GRIFFITHS, 91, keenly intellectual former U.S. Congresswoman from Michigan, whose persistence led to House and Senate passage of the never ratified Equal Rights Amendment; in Armada, Mich. During her 20-year tenure in Washington (she chose not to run again in 1974), she was responsible for adding "sex" to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, thus banning discrimination based on gender, and became the first woman to serve on the powerful Ways and Means Committee...
...first term Senator though others in the administration say they are still looking to find spending cuts that will satisfy the lifelong deficit hawk. Last week, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, whom Bush has promised another term, echoed Voinovich's position that taxes could only be cut if equal spending reductions are also proposed...