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...bottom of a few high profile cases. It concluded that eight men convicted of belonging to a communist party in 1975 and executed less than a day later had been framed by the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA). In another case, the commission found that Pastor Im Gi Yun, called in for questioning by military intelligence in 1980 because he was involved in a pro-democracy group, died from beatings and torture, not high blood pressure, as the military maintained. Another tragedy involved Choi Jong Gil, a law professor at the prestigious Seoul University. According to the KCIA, Choi jumped...
...spur North Koreans to be more productive. Wages jumped as much as 20-fold, while prices for electricity, housing and rice were sharply increased from levels that were so low, the services were virtually given away. Companies are also starting to introduce bonuses for the best workers. Kim Sung Gi, a staff member of Pyongyang's largest library, says his salary increased 20 times to about $100 a month, while his rent was raised only five times. "I feel more satisfied," he says...
...STARTED Yu-Gi-Oh! began life as a Japanese comic strip...
From the same marketing masterminds who catapulted Pokemon into every U.S. schoolyard comes Japan's latest export: Yu-Gi-Oh!, featuring Yugi, a nerdy kid who uses magical powers to morph into a spiky-haired, hubcap-eyed hero with a grownup bod. Yugi is an ace cardplayer who battles (using cards, of all things) with electric lizards, man-eating bugs and all manner of mystical creatures in a complex, secret world that youngsters (mostly boys ages 9 and up) can't get enough of and--lucky for the kids--most parents can't be bothered to understand. Yu-Gi...
...pretty as her favorite blond-haired, milky white baby-doll. Mother threw said doll in the trash, made a fun ceremony of it, really, and bought this mildly vain, mildly sensitive and starkly black soul a cadre of beautiful black dolls (and a few Hot Wheels, Tonka Trucks and GI Joes to make sure seven-year-old me didn’t get too girly). I don’t expect the make-up industry, or the world for that matter, to be as comfortable with me as I am, but it would be nice if they (ahhh, the comfortably...