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...epilogue to Journey into the Whirlwind, her shattering memoir of life in the Soviet Gulag, Evgenia Ginzburg wrote: "Can such things just happen and be done with, unattended by retribution?" The prison camps in North Korea are the Gulag of the 21st century; in the past year, thanks mainly to the testimony of a number of former prisoners who have escaped to South Korea, the outside world has come to know much more about the grim conditions inside. In particular, a report authored last year by Hawk for the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea meticulously pulled together...
...during which, he later said, the North Koreans admitted to the existence of reeducation-through-labor camps. The U.N. this summer named a special rapporteur on human rights in North Korea. In the case of North Korea, the world remains a long way from getting an answer to Evgenia Ginzburg's pointed question. But it has started asking...
...nonfiction of the twentieth century. She splits the writings into two categories: essays, in which the narrator explores a subject through his own relation with it, and memoirs in which the narrator explores herself through some external topic. Her discussion of the writings of Oscar Wilde, Edward Hoagland, Natalia Ginzburg, James Baldwin Orwell and Lynn Darling, among others, is done with the deft hand of an experienced teacher, and an effective use of quotes and passages make it possible to follow her arguments without having read the essay she is discussing in its entirety...
...friend of Bill Clinton's, Klein stepped into the void left by the 1993 suicide of deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster and helped the First Family navigate Whitewater turmoil. He steered the Supreme Court nominations of Ruth Bader Ginzburg and Stephen Breyer through Congress before joining Justice in 1995 as understudy to then antitrust chief Anne Bingaman...
...course, whatever Clinton may say on that missing audio with Huang isn't going to be as incriminating as the Texaco chiefs' words. Nor is Ginzburg likely to find anything on the scale of Nixon's missing seventeen minutes. But Fred Thompson's campaign finance investigation ?which reconvenes Wednesday to kvetch about the klatches ? is desperate. Not only have the 100 hours of tape run out of steam, but Democrats keep pulling out compromising pictures of Reagan and Dole, performing equally dubious fund-raising tricks. Thompson needs Ginzburg to work miracles ? or at the least, raise his eyebrows a little...