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...most important change is the arrangement of tourism to the Kumgang Mountain...The visitors sang together with North Korean tour guides," Cho said. "No one could have imagined such a thing even one year...
...Dylan kept me company on the stereo, and I was enjoying rolling up the mountain at 65 miles per hour when all of a sudden I heard a horrible grating noise. At first I thought it was just Bob Dylan's voice, but then the car began to rattle and shake (more than it usually does), and although I wasn't applying any pressure to the brakes yet, I was definitely slowing down...
...performed any kind of maintenance work. I drove very slowly at first, quite convinced that my bicycle wheel would in all likelihood fall off. As I eased back into the evening traffic, I found solace in following a VW van trying to pull a U-Haul up the mountain. My mind began to wander again and I thought about all the things that Harvard hasn't taught...
East-coast intellectuals, like Appalachian mountain folk, are famous for their feuds. When Whittaker Chambers accused Alger Hiss of being a Soviet spy in the 1950s, the political elite chose sides, and some still aren't speaking. After novelist Mary McCarthy called playwright Lillian Hellman a liar--or, more precisely, said, "Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'"--the literary crowd split in two. They're at it again. That rumbling out of Washington is the sound of a new chattering class feud--and unaligned wordsmiths had better head for the hills...
Others skipped the bridge entirely. They drove to the 21st century on the ground below--driving to work, driving their kids to soccer practice, driving to Blockbuster to rent "Titanic," driving to Barnes and Noble to buy "A Civil Action" and "Cold Mountain." Every so often these people snuck a glance up at the bridge to nowhere; after all, the ugly, low-hanging structure (which they were paying for) cast a heinous shadow over their idyllic suburban landscapes, insulting their aesthetic sensibilities and corrupting their children. And it paid to look up occasionally, if only to make sure you weren...