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...rolling south from Pyongyang toward Kaesong near the DMZ, searching for signs of economic life in North Korea. Pyongyang, the capital, was like a ghost town?its spotless streets scrubbed clean of the messy bustle that defines most Asian capitals. The highway to the country's second-biggest city is nearly deserted. But our government handlers have promised to show us the Kaesong industrial park, where North Koreans are churning out watches, shoes and kitchenware in newly built South Korean-owned factories. After a two-hour drive, the bus stops on a bridge in the middle of nowhere. No industrial...
...River Gambia. Normally, the rusting blue barge would be packed with people and vehicles, while the road that runs up to the river would teem with taxis and trucks, traders shouting for business and farmers herding cows and donkeys. But this afternoon, the Gambian port of Farafenni is a ghost town. Bereft of customers, traders are closing their shops, pulling down corrugated shutters and tugging on the padlocks to make sure they're secure. A two-month-old dispute between Gambia and its enveloping neighbor Senegal has cut river crossings, the lifeblood of Farafenni's business, to a trickle. "This...
...stack of tacos, the UC could theoretically hold the entire Harvard administration hostage with strategically placed Mexican food and the threat of ravenous student stampedes. Imagine. UC President Matthew J. Glazer ‘06 is Aragorn; Felipe’s is Anduril. And we hungry Harvardians are the Ghost Army at his back. Next stop: Harvard University Dining Services to rape, pillage, and secure unlimited Congo bars. Tolkien and joking aside, the most apt comparison with Monday’s Lamont party doesn’t invoke Middle Earth. Rather, Lamont’s orgy of opulent consumption should...
...household name through his unauthorized mash-up project “The Gray Album” (a mixture of Jay-Z’s Black Album and the Beatles’ White Album). Many Adult Swim cartoons borrow liberally from past Hanna-Barbara productions (Aqualab and Space Ghost, in particular). In this way, collaboration between the three is a match made in mixed media heaven...
...Shoutouts to Space Ghost and Scooby Doo supplant Biggie and Pac, and there’s a whole track called “Aqua Teen Hunger Force,” but for the most part Doom sounds like his normal virtuosic self...