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...giant finger pointing at a tiny image of an exploding Pentagon, along with the battle cry "Let Us First Attack the Stronghold of U.S. Imperialism!" There is even a poster that disingenuously suggests South Korea is targeting the North with nukes, along with the plea "Turn the Korean Peninsula into a Nuclear-Free Zone...
...parents were in Tokyo for a week, and to keep them entertained, she and her husband, Stephen, transformed themselves into tour-guide extraordinaires. They planned visits to the Meiji Shrine, Kamakura's Great Buddha and the Yokohama waterfront, rented a car for an overnight trip to the Izu peninsula, and even scheduled a New Year's Day viewing of the Emperor at his palace...
...DIED. KU SANG, 85, one of Korea's most revered poets, who was hounded by authoritarian regimes on both sides of the divided peninsula; in Seoul. Ku's family moved to the north from Seoul when he was a boy, but after the communist takeover, officials deemed his writing "ideologically flawed," and he was forced to flee southward in 1947. In the early '50s, he was imprisoned for eight months by the South Korean regime for criticizing its abuses of power...
...once in my life, I felt an enormous solidarity with Spain. We Portuguese have nurtured antagonism toward our neighbor for several centuries. But on March 11, I suffered along with the people of Madrid, feeling like a citizen of the Iberian Peninsula rather than of a country that split from Spain in 1143. Still, I cannot understand how the Spanish people could allow their election to be manipulated by terrorists. The Spaniards have taught us some brave lessons about dealing with ETA terrorists. Though the probability of being killed on the roads of Portugal is thousands of times greater than...
...once in my life, I felt an enormous solidarity with Spain. We Portuguese have nurtured antagonism toward our neighbor for several centuries. But on March 11, I suffered along with the people of Madrid, feeling like a citizen of the Iberian Peninsula rather than of a country that split from Spain in 1143. Still, I cannot understand how the Spanish people could allow their election to be manipulated by terrorists. The Spaniards have taught us some brave lessons about dealing with ETA terrorists. Though the probability of being killed on the roads of Portugal is thousands of times greater than...