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...entire group was deposited in a 47-story hotel that sits on Pyongyang's Daedong River. It is one of two hotels in Pyongyang that foreigners stay in. The other one is on a central street, with plenty of pedestrian traffic outside and even some vehicular traffic. It's possible to walk out the front door, see people and try to talk to them. Not from our hotel. It's isolated and difficult to walk to or from. And that was the point. There hadn't been this many Americans on North Korean soil since the Korean...
Good things come to those who wait, or at least, that’s how the saying goes. Luckily for the Harvard men’s basketball team, fate has decided to look kindly upon it after years of pedestrian play against the Killer P’s. Coming off the heels of a remarkable comeback against Princeton, the Crimson (8-18, 3-7 Ivy) capped the weekend by handing Penn (10-16, 5-4 Ivy) a 89-79 defeat, marking the first time since 1987 that the Crimson has successfully swept the two Ivy teams at Lavietes...
...Rush Hour 2.” The implication is clear: Gondry doesn’t think much of Brett Ratner’s oeuvre. But what does he think of the people who watch his own films? Does he consider himself above the industry that he so clearly considers pedestrian despite his participation in the studio system? What does Gondry think makes a movie worth watching?As ambitious as these questions may be, the director isn’t terribly concerned with answering them in “Rewind.” Instead, Gondry—who also...
...Fortunately, the same engineering which brought us the umbrella also brought us something far more useful: the raincoat. For those unfamiliar with it, the raincoat wraps snugly around the wearer’s body, poses no threat to fellow pedestrians, and has the added advantage of thermal insulation. Driving rain poses no threat to the raincoat-clad pedestrian, while the umbrella user vainly struggles to position his or her weapon against the onslaught of the wind. And, if one wishes, the raincoat can be augmented by rain-pants and even gaiters to provide an unassailable guard from the weather?...
...ambulance crew arrived within several minutes to this pedestrian mall in the Negev, just 10 kms away from Israel's top-secret nuclear reactor. As a doctor rushed among the injured, he paused to open the jacket of one severely wounded man and found that he was wearing an explosives vest. The victim was a second suicide bomber, who was also supposed to blow himself up. Says Chief Inspector Kobi Mor, "When I arrived at the area, one of the people told me that there was a terrorist who was still alive. I pulled...