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...visited Pyongyang in August, it looked better than it had even six months earlier. There were open-air restaurants offering grilled meat - just like in Seoul - and people looked healthy and even vibrant. But the capital has always been an oasis reserved for party members and North Koreans loyal to the regime. Aid workers and diplomats say smaller cities lack regular electricity and people still can't get enough to eat. They probably aren't starving but malnutrition remains widespread...
...industry I’ve seen to date. Her personal life was intact and PG—we all knew that Jerrica/Jem would be forever faithful to her hunky boyfriend-cum-stage-manager Rio. Even when Jem whipped out the overly-skimpy clothes, she couldn’t scandalize loyal watchers. After all, baring leg is somehow forgivable when your legs are a product of animation...
...setting for the game was anything but picturesque. Several dozen loyal fans braved the morning rain to cheer on the Crimson in a game played amid a steady rainfall, worsened by persistent wind...
...hundreds of fighters, including some senior Taliban officials, out of the contested northern city of Kunduz. The task of stabilizing Afghanistan--let alone rebuilding it--has been hampered by lingering rivalries and suspicions. Just last week, a misunderstanding between U.S. troops guarding Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Afghan soldiers loyal to Karzai's Defense Minister nearly ended in a shootout at the Presidential Palace in Kabul; after the Americans tried to detain an Afghan general, the two sides faced off with weapons drawn for several minutes, before Karzai's aides separated them...
...Republicans are trying to win the November congressional elections by harping on patriotism and the war on terrorism [Nation, Sept. 23]. What they don't realize is that across the political spectrum, all of us want to win against terrorism, and all of us are loyal patriots. Bush is making the same mistake his father made--trying to win votes for his party by using foreign policy at a time when most Americans are struggling to pay the rent. The economy was horrible under the first President Bush. It rebounded under Clinton, and now the economy is horrible again. When...