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SEOUL: Beijing is on the spot now that Hwang Jang Yop, a key member of North Korea?s ruling party and a close confidant to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, has launched an attempt to defect to South Korea via China. In Japan at a North Korean-sponsored international seminar, Hwang reportedly changed planes and departed Tokyo for Beijing. Hwang, 72, is a relative of late North Korean President Kim Il Sung and a prize product of the system, a graduate of North Korea's elite Kim Il Sung University and Moscow University in the late 1950s. Hwang would...
...list was too short. Fuhrman wasn't on it, and new rogues keep coming. Last month Detective William Jang was charged with offering to fix a case in exchange for a $3,000 bribe, and a grand jury began investigating Detective Raymond L. Doyle for allegedly forging a judge's name on a warrant. These are the sort of rogue-cop tricks Fuhrman boasted about in his interviews with screenwriter Laura Hart McKinny. Yet on the day of the O.J. verdict, when Chief Williams commented on the public's obvious loss of faith in his department, he could muster nothing...
...Jang Jisheng's work is an exception to this omission. His Travelling at Mount Tianhua, a landscape that resembles a Lan Meng or a Lan Yin, is embedded with a reflective political statement, expressed in the inscription. Jisheng, exiled for political dissidence, has inscribed his lonely, cloudy seascape with a sad, romantic poem, translated as follows...
...cheer, lament, and otherwise express on cue their sympathies for the story being "made" in their midst. At the end, following the shamanistic purging performed by the women's "Dance of Life," the shamans invite members of the audience to join in the final frenzied clamor of the nan-jang...
...majority of New Yorkers the most palpable effect of the influx is culinary. Does any other city on earth have Tibetan, Peruvian, Afghan and Ethiopian restaurants? The Kam Sen grocery store in Queens draws buyers of Korean cha jang gu soo noodles and fermented Chinese "thousand-year-old" eggs packed in mud. The store sells eight kinds of soy sauce. In Flushing, a little way down from the Japan Sari House and an Italian restaurant called La Giocanda, the Bharat Bazaar has sacks of dried red chilis, deep purple mustard seeds, cloves and pistachios, and rents Indian videocassettes...