Word: photographs
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...Inspector O has a simple mission: sit on a hill at dawn and photograph a car traveling the long, ruler-straight road connecting Pyongyang with the border to the South. But this is North Korea, where even the easiest task is complicated by penury-the camera he is given has a dead battery-and fraught with politics. Returning to the capital, O is unexpectedly grilled by two senior intelligence officials with a keen interest in the car he didn't photograph. Becoming embroiled with the secret services is a dangerous proposition for any North Korean, even a policeman...
...soon as they entered the Peacock Room - and maybe posed for a quick photograph with Dentsu CEO Takeo Mataki, who manned his position like a shopping mall Santa - it was straight to the food tables. There was the sushi counter catered by one of the finest restaurants in the capital. There was the grill manned by chefs who wielded steak knives like samurai. And there was the fugu - the poisonous blowfish delicacy that can cost your life if prepared incorrectly, and which can cost you $50 or more when ordered at a restaurant. I braved the fugu sashimi...
...latest events in Iran could spell trouble for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's hold on power. During a speech to students at Tehran's Amir Khabir University, hecklers shouted "Death to the dictator!" and burned his photograph in effigy. Then, voters in municipal elections held nationwide on Friday rejected candidates he supported in favor of hopefuls backed by pragmatic conservatives and reformists. Both developments illustrate that while Ahmadinejad's radical, assertive policies have made him a formidable global figure, he still has a long way to go in consolidating his influence at home...
After reporting that two Jorge Luis Borges manuscripts worth nearly $1 million had been lost and presumably stolen, Harvard Square’s Lame Duck Books found them yesterday hidden in a photograph sleeve in the store itself...
After it reported that two Jorge Luis Borges manuscripts worth nearly $1 million had been lost and presumably stolen, Harvard Square's Lame Duck Books found the manuscripts today hidden in a photograph sleeve in the store itself...