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...boarded buses and headed into town--about a 1512-mile (25 km) journey--and some of the North Korea I'd read about and heard about from diplomats and refugees and defectors started to become real. In the late afternoon gloom, we passed row after row of apartment buildings and office buildings, almost all unlit. People either trudged along the side of the road or rode bikes, many stopping to stare at our convoy. And every mile or so, there stood in the middle of the road a female traffic cop in an aqua blue uniform and a fur-lined...
...been recording albums and doing cabaret shows with his band, the Negro Problem, for the past 10 years, Stew, 46, had seen only one musical--How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying--when he started writing Passing Strange three years ago. The loosely autobiographical show recounts the artistic journey (in scenes acted, sung and danced by a full cast) of a young man from a middle-class L.A. neighborhood to the drugs-and-free-love wonderland of Amsterdam and a radical artistic commune in Berlin...
...drama that eventually transformed the very nature of John Paul II's image of himself, and of his papacy. Lucia's superstar days may have waned in the memory of post-Vatican II American Catholics, but for people like Bertone and Pope Benedict XVI, who made the journey with the late John Paul, she remains an important symbol...
...Reality Check "A Momentous Journey" is how the Phil's p.r. director Eric Latzky had called it in Beijing the day before the flight to Pyongyang. Immediately after the concert, he had seemed prescient. But momentous things sometimes last just a moment. This is still North Korea we're talking about. Kim Jong Il has run the place now for nearly 14 years. He has not, to date, shown himself to be an agent of change. He still runs a rogue regime, suspected recently of aiding Syria in building what Israeli intelligence believes to have been a nuclear-weapons facility...
...accused by the opposition of deliberately delaying the talks in order to hold on to power. But the President today pledged to push the coalition deal into law. Odinga echoed his sentiments, saying, "On our side, we are determined to ensure that this agreement succeeds. We have begun a journey and this journey we will walk together." For the first time since December 27's elections, he referred to Kibaki as "the President...