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...Pyongyang and Washington, I would finally get to see a little of the place for myself. The North Koreans, to say the least, are control freaks, and hordes of minders immediately surrounded us on the tarmac as we waited for the orchestra leader, Lorin Maazel, and his musicians to follow us down and take a "class photo" in front of a beaming mosaic of the Great Leader. The deputy minister of culture, Song Sok Hwan, stepped forward to greet Maazel - Monday's money shot for the cameramen among us - so as one they surged forward to surround...
...reacted by sending non-essential staff out of the country, and other nations may follow suit. Germany has suspended the issuing of visas from Belgrade. U.S. ambassador Cameron Munter slams "hardliners" for inciting violence. "We're really angry that this happened," he says of the embassy attacks. "It must not happen again." He adds, however: "We aren't yet confident that we are safe...
...while Buckley’s anti-elitism was charming because of its element of ironic self-awareness, today’s conservatives, admittedly attempting to follow his lead, have lapsed either into a reflexive philistinism or George Will’s poseurish pomposity. Buckley only could maintain this balance because he understood that one must first have the benefit of intelligence before maligning the intelligent. As for elitism, he was an aristocrat par excellence, fond of Bach and sailing, and is rumored to have taken his yacht outside of U.S. waters so that he could smoke pot while preserving...
...accelerated after the dictator's death. Unlike the worldwide headlines generated by Zapatero's gay-rights legislation, there was barely a whisper with the 1978 approval of a law with much wider implications: the end to the long-standing ban on the sale of contraception. Divorce and abortion would follow, as well as some of Europe's most open access to assisted-fertility treatments. In just decades, Spain has gone from a country whose women were forced to go abroad to obtain a safe and legal abortion to one that draws thousands of couples for its advanced assisted-fertility treatment...
...Muslims back a generation." Muslims, she says, "became [al-Qaeda's] victims too." For the first half of the book, she attempts to reclaim the religion from the fundamentalists who would use it for political advantage, explaining how the original concept of jihad, meaning a personal struggle "to follow the right path," had been appropriated for the purposes of inspiring resistance to the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. She puts the treatment of women as described in the Koran into context, demonstrating how, at the time of Islam's founding, such policies were revolutionary and far more progressive than those...