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...America, there was a Mimi, a teenage cuddle for President John Kennedy back in 1962 and '63. But there was also a Pam, a Priscilla, a Jill (actually, two of them), a Janet, a Kim, a Mary and a Diana I can think of offhand...
...these cracks that Persepolis shines. When Satrapi and her friends are handed veils to wear, they tie them together to make a jump rope. From her parents' vacation to Turkey, she asks them to bring back forbidden tokens of Western culture: a denim jacket, chocolate and posters of Kim Wilde and Iron Maiden, which they dutifully smuggle in the lining of a coat. After she is threatened by the Guardians of the Revolution on the street, who berate her for her sneakers and jacket, she locks herself in her bedroom and dances madly to Kids in America. But Satrapi does...
...addition to Summers and Rudenstine, the top Harvard earners for fiscal year 2002 were Dean of the Medical School Joseph B. Martin, who received $445,399 in total compensation, and Dean of the Business School Kim B. Clark, who made a total...
...Even if Kim should fall to a U.S. onslaught, it's unlikely there will be post-overthrow photographs of joyful North Koreans celebrating the demise of their oppressor. Kim keeps the public in constant fear of a U.S. attack to maintain his grip on power. Schoolchildren are instructed to chant "The U.S. is our worst enemy" in front of the U.S.S. Pueblo, an American spy ship captured by the North Koreans in 1968 that is still on display on the banks of the Daedong River in Pyongyang. They win school sporting contests by being the first to use a wooden...
...enemy programmed to hate and fear is not the adversary the U.S. wants to face across the bargaining table. But assuming that Kim is driven primarily by a desire to stay in power, he might realize his nuclear plan has a fundamental flaw. Using or threatening to use the bomb will almost certainly spell the end of his regime, no matter the cost. Logic should be telling him that the only sure way he can survive is by giving up his nukes, in return getting much-needed aid and living to be obnoxious another...