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...Flash forward a decade. Another Bush administration and another group on the naval base for the foreseeable future. Appeals have again reached the Supreme Court. This time, though, the high court has been siding with the detainees...
...often out speaking to young people. "There's enormous wealth in this town," says Moore, who grew up in Moree's mission. "I ask young people, Don't you want a part of it? I said to some boys the other day, You can have the flash car and the blonde on your arm. But you've got to work for it." One of Moore's slogans, reproduced on a mobile-phone holder is leave the mob, get a job. Making the initial step into work for a young person from a troubled family is difficult, she says, especially with...
...night in the giant May Day Stadium in Pyongyang, the pageant features tens of thousands of costumed dancers, gymnasts and singers performing an elaborate tribute to Kim and his father - North Korea's founder, Kim Il Sung. Thousands of children seated on the bleachers opposite the spectators flip colored flash cards to create an ever-changing backdrop of slogans and uplifting images. ?They are fighting for the happiness of our people,? reads one slogan as flash cards form a tableau of parachuting soldiers. Later, a group of child performers - girls dressed in pink and boys in blue - run toward...
...flash of steel is revealing. Pang, we later discover, is the granddaughter of the founder of North Korea's repressive state security apparatus Pang Hak Se. ?My grandfather was very faithful to the Great Leader Kim Il Sung and Comrade Kim Jong Il,? she tells me. Indeed, one scholar estimates grandfather sent ten of thousands to the gulag...
...tons of rice from the World Food Program (WFP) that was destined for hungry Somalis. Now back in his home country of Sri Lanka, Mahalingam, 58, related to TIME the saga of his 101-day ordeal as a captive of Somali pirates. It began, he says, with "the flash of 5 to 10 shots. Straightaway I knew it must be pirates." Before he could issue a distress signal, three fiber-glass speedboats with powerful outboard motors pulled alongside the Semlow. The pirates hooked a small metal ladder to the ship and scrambled aboard. "There were 15 to 20 men wearing...