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...most memorable Republican scandals of our lifetimes, meanwhile, are devoid of sexual excitement, but packed with violence—first in the Reagan administration’s use of Iranian gun money to finance terrorists in Latin America, and now in the emerging scandal over whether we invaded another country on false pretenses furnished by the Bush administration in an apocalyptic effort to sell a pre-fabricated policy...
...last time he saw his kid brother, Hyung Doh, Private Lee Chul Soo was a foot soldier on home leave during the Korean War. The family took a snapshot of Lee standing proudly under a persimmon tree with his gun. But a week before the war ended, on July 27, 1953, Lee was captured and taken to North Korea, where he spent most of the next 50 years working in a coal mine. In November, Lee managed to escape from North Korea into China, and last month his younger brother flew to the city of Yanji for a reunion...
Confrontations like these between Kurds and Arabs are threatening to make Kirkuk, Iraq's fifth largest city, the world's new Sarajevo, a site of ethnic cleansing and slaughter. Though Assi's encounter with Abdullah ended without bloodshed, at least two gun battles in the city have together left more than a dozen people dead. The trouble is rooted in Saddam's policy of moving fellow Arabs into the Kirkuk area to squeeze out the frequently rebellious native Kurds. The main objective was to secure Baghdad's control over Kirkuk's oil, which represents 6.4% of the world's known...
...lived more media lives in fewer years. For them, Hanna-Barbera cartoons and embarrassing-in-retrospect videos were a staple of growing up--one part Mom's cooking, one part surrogate mom. So I Love the ... et al. celebrate pop culture's dross: more Bananarama than R.E.M., more Top Gun than Tom Wolfe...
...surprised if you're asked to whip out your cell phone and make a call next time you go through airport security. A mobile phone that masquerades as a gun may sound like a device concocted for 007, but it's the latest hidden weaponry to show up on the radar of law-enforcement folks...