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...over the space in America's collective consciousness formerly occupied by the planet Mongo. Created by the brilliant cartoonist Alex Raymond, the distant Mongo, as ruled by the diabolical Ming the Merciless, a jaundiced and slant-eyed despot, perpetually plotted our destruction until Flash Gordon foiled its schemes. Substitute Kim Jong-Il for Ming, and nuclear weapons for invading spaceships, and you have a pretty good approximation of America's poor sense of an extremely closed and apparently hostile other world. How appropriate, then, that another kind of comic would be the most readable attempt at exposing the life...
...leadership. As a result the book reads as a series of sharply observed and funny/scary anecdotes on the life of a foreigner in what may be the most hyper-controlled society in the world. One typically smart sequence examines the ubiquitous side-by-side portraits of the leader Kim Jong-Il and his dead-but-technically-still-in-charge father Kim Il-Sung. They appear in every single room, ?except in the shitters of course.? He notes how both men have been made to look nearly identical, "same size, same age, same suit. That way nothing ever changes...
...aggressively adopted the Meehan-Hoos. Locals have given them $600 in Old Navy gift cards and $60 in Borders certificates. A nearby inn has donated a romantic dinner for two for the couple. A coffee shop will deliver a pastry tray every week, "from now until whenever," according to Kim Allard, a city councilor who has helped arrange donations. "It's unbelievable," says Yolanda. "I told Jan, 'There's no way we can ever move out of this town...
...We’re happy to kick-off the fall recruiting process,” said Marin Kim ’06, a member of the AMBLE Board of Directors. “This is a great movement for women and minorities. We’re on the cusp of change and debunking myths of Wall Street...
...contest that featured 23 ties and 10 lead changes, Harvard showed that despite the graduation of front liners Kaego Ogbechie and Nilly Schweitzer, as well as setter Kim Gould, the Crimson was a force to be reckoned with...