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...getting ready for dinner in their bright, spacious Pyongyang apartment when the lights flicker out. With an air of resignation?blackouts are a daily ritual, even in the nation's showcase capital?they light candles to eat by, and the mother grumbles, "Bloody Americans, it's all their fault." The scene, at once mundane and extraordinary, is typical of A State of Mind, a new British documentary that offers an intimate look at the world's most shuttered society. As they chronicle the lives of two young gymnasts training to participate in the Mass Games?a stadium-sized patriotic spectacle...
While many rightly protest the staggering death toll from the Darfur conflict, which has reached almost 70,000, most of us are blind to the toll inflicted by our own government several hundred miles to the east in Iraq. Of course, this ignorance is not entirely our fault. Some of the blame rests on the official policy of the U.S. government, which suppresses the Iraqi casualty count. In an honest revelation of priorities, the U.S. government does, through the National Agricultural Statistics Service, keep meticulous data on the herd sizes and deaths of hogs, pigs, cattle, poultry, sheep, and ewes...
...nuance everywhere, including in his interview with Robert Parker, the redoubtable American wine critic who can make or break a vintage in the newsletter he produces from his Maryland home office, with his flatulent bulldog George and his basset hound Hoover in attendance. Parker says it's hardly his fault that his judgments have become the gold standard for wines across the world; he sees himself - with some justice, as Nossiter acknowledges - as a consumer advocate whose call-'em-as-I-see-'em sensibility broke the stranglehold of befuddled aristocrats in the Bordeaux region. But Nossiter suggests that with more...
...Harvard’s congressional district or James DiPaola’s election as county sheriff, and they’re likely to give you a stare as blank as the Green Party ticket on a swing state ballot—and it’s not entirely their fault. While it would be nice to see Harvard students more actively involved in the political life of their home for four years, Cambridge’s current election system doesn’t give Crimson undergrads much incentive to declare citizenship in the city and participate in local elections, much...
...numbers or whatever else they study over there—learning is difficult when you’re surrounded by urban wasteland. No one can study to the best of his abilities when he must fear for his life whenever he ventures out of his dorm. And who can fault sexually frustrated youth for being distracted by the plethora of five-dollar prostitutes who roam the city of New Haven (Might we suggest a stronger work study program to help keep Yalies strapped for cash from taking to the streets...