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Beyond its potential for fun, it had the makings of an intelligent paranoid thriller. It could reflect our times and connect with the uncertainty so many of us feel about what’s really going on in our world. The key was Julianne Moore’s desperate call for empathy, for believers: I wanted to believe. On this evidence alone, I was willing. But, as is too often the case in this era, it was a sleazy bait and switch scheme—I found nothing spectacular or terrifying in The Forgotten, only government agents scrambling to hide...
North Korea, arguably the world's most paranoid totalitarian regime, is a frustrating bargaining partner under the best of circumstances. But efforts to convince dictator Kim Jong Il to abandon his nuclear-weapons programs could be made even more intractable by a growing call in the U.S. for Pyongyang to be held accountable for the abysmal plight of its starving, oppressed citizens. A bill recently passed by the lower house of the U.S. Congress authorizes Washington to spend millions of dollars promoting human rights in the North and helping thousands of North Korean refugees?legislation an insecure Pyongyang says...
...bring North Korea's human-rights record front and center as a way to increase the pressure on Kim's regime?and ultimately to topple it. Says Gordon Flake, a North Korea expert at the Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs in Washington: "The North Koreans aren't just paranoid to think that calls for improvements in human rights are synonymous with calls for regime change." U.S. lawmakers insist, however, that the legislation is meant only to address a humanitarian crisis. Says Congressman Jim Leach, the House bill's co-sponsor: "If it is such an embarrassment [to Pyongyang], they might...
...your policies, many Americans dare not question your approach to fighting this war. (It helps, by the way, that the Democrats have so rarely provided any substantive alternatives.) Any opening, they say—and you remind them—will be exploited by our enemies. It is this paranoid logic which extended the Cold War decade after decade...
Just what we need: an arrogant loudmouth who represents a loony, paranoid faction. But it's not Rush Limbaugh. Surprise! It's Michael Moore! HEIDI CRABTREE Kennesaw...