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...country's recently legalized farmers' markets and announced a return to the old socialist system of government-controlled rice handouts. Private grain markets were just a stop-gap measure necessitated by a few bad harvests, according to the North Korean official in charge of our group, Choe Jong Hun. "Now we have a good harvest and we are able to feed ourselves," said Choe. "There is no need to sell rice in the markets...
...small ornaments nearby that depict fierce tigers attacking defenseless deer. The museum also features an exceptional collection of tomb figures, or mingqi, especially from the Han dynasty (206 B.C. to 220 A.D.). The Han believed that humans have both a physical life (po) and a spiritual one (hun), and that at death the two go their separate ways. While the spirit journeys to paradise, the po remains in the tomb. There, it needs the same kinds of company and comforts that it enjoyed in life, which the mingqi were designed to provide. The Cernuschi displays a vast array of these...
...museum also features an exceptional collection of tomb figures, or mingqi, especially from the Han dynasty (206 B.C. to 220 A.D.). The Han believed that humans have both a physical life (po) and a spiritual one (hun), and that at death the two go their separate ways. While the spirit journeys to paradise, the po remains in the tomb. There, it needs the same kinds of company and comforts that it enjoyed in life, which the mingqi were designed to provide. The Cernuschi displays a vast array of these once-buried companions-dancers, musicians, cooks, soldiers and guardians, as well...
...ARRESTED. CHHUN YASITH, 48, Cambodian-American accountant and leader of the U.S.-based Cambodian Freedom Fighters; on federal charges of conspiracy to kill in a foreign country and engaging in a military expedition against a friendly nation, for allegedly orchestrating a failed 2000 coup against Cambodian leader Hun Sen; in Long Beach, California. In the attack, code named Operation Volcano, some 70 rebels unsuccessfully stormed government buildings in Phnom Penh, leaving dozens injured and eight people killed. Chhun, who has called Hun Sen's regime a puppet of Communist Vietnam, claimed at the time that the attack was a coup...
...person, Coulter is more likely to offer jokes than fury. For instance, you might ask her to name her historical antecedents in the conservative movement, and she'll burst forth, "I'm Attila the Hun," and then break into gales of laughter so forceful you smell the Nicorette. "Genghis Khan...