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Outside Pyongyang and a few big cities where the élite still live on government rations, the majority of North Koreans in urban centers get almost everything from officially sanctioned markets. "This is exactly what was happening in the Soviet Union in 1989," before it collapsed, says Leonid Petrov, a North Korea expert at the Academy of Korean Studies south of Seoul. "Nobody believes in the old socialist ideology anymore--they believe in money...
...wintry Berlin, because he heads the judging panel at this year's Berlin Film Festival, which starts this week. That a Hollywood player like Emmerich was chosen for the job hints at the profound changes that have swept the German movie industry. Though his country's art house élite despises his commercial movies, he can expect a warm welcome this year from a film community that has matured and broadened during his 20-year absence. German film is more popular than at any time in recent memory. Homegrown movies broke records in German cinemas in 2004, taking nearly...
...tsunami struck the country's Indian Ocean coast, ministers had to beg the United Nations to fly them in to survey the damage. But before they can begin rebuilding the country, they must face down the powerful Islamic courts and placate the businessmen. These groups form a powerful élite that has filled the vacuum left by the fading might of the warlords, who destroyed Mogadishu after Mohammed Siad Barre was ousted in 1991. The most determined opposition will come from the Islamic courts. Started as small-scale operations set up by the city's clans, they gained influence when...
...Economic Forum, founded in 1971, first got widespread attention in the 1990s. And this year is no different, as business leaders, politicians and, O.K., some lucky inky-fingered wretches prepare to trek to the conclave in the Swiss Alps town of Davos. The annual meeting of the international business ??lite, Davos developed a reputation as a cheerleader for globalization. But by the late 1990s, it was fashionable to argue that economic integration benefits only those who live in rich countries and who work in multinational companies, able to source--and sell--their products anywhere they choose. The world...