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...those who would follow. Will Eisner has, without question, done more to advance the medium of comics than just about anyone. But he didn't invent the graphic novel form; nor did he coin the term (as he would be among the first to acknowledge). R.C. Harvey Champaign, IL...
...IL-LOOM-INATION...
...city with neon-tinted karaoke lounges and rowdy bars. The other side looks like a sprawling concentration camp, with barrackslike buildings and barbed wire strewn about. This is the North Korean town of Hyesan. A giant sign on a hill above the riverbank proclaims: "Long live General Kim Jong Il, Sun of the 21st Century!" But the 21st century doesn't appear to have graced Hyesan yet. At night, the city is pitch black, save one seven-story building that is inexplicably ablaze with light. The Chinese who peer across the river at the glowing building, which is empty...
...father was second-in-command of a battalion, and four of the kids went to college. Ryu, now 35, majored in electrical engineering and even studied English. "Happy family," she says, remembering a few faltering words of English. In 1996, however, two years after North Korea's founder Kim Il Sung died, the famines worsened and Ryu's family was soon reduced to one meal...
DIED. FRANCO CORELLI, 82, powerhouse Italian tenor; in Milan. Largely self-taught, he was faulted by critics for the raw passion in his singing but adored by rank-and-file opera buffs, who gave him bravos for such roles as Manrico in Il Trovatore and Cavaradossi in Tosca. His competitiveness sometimes took a strange form; during Puccini's Turandot at New York City's Metropolitan Opera in 1961, he bit a soprano on the neck because she held a high note longer than...