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...hand, bearing 40 yellowing letters as proof of his devotion. He was told she had married, and later that she was dead. But he was still receiving letters from her. Through contacts of his ex-diplomat father, Canh last year persuaded Vietnam's President Tran Duc Luong to plead his case. It worked. Ri was allowed to leave North Korea, and they wed last month in Hanoi. "She's still beautiful," beams Canh. He sees his bliss as a sign that North Korea is changing. Ri disagrees: "It was all (due to) the great efforts of my lover." True love...
...Undeterred, 20 towns-people decided to travel to Harbin in late October to plead with the provincial authorities. While waiting for their bus, they were accosted by five county leaders, five police cars and 25 cops. The secretary of the local Public Security Bureau, Bai Qingzhu, asked them who their leaders were, but they said they didn't have leaders. Bai ordered five of the 20 detained, including Su. "They told me we were guilty of illegal organizing," says Su. The five were held in the county jail for 20 days. "We had to sleep on the ground," recalls...
Adel al-Jubeir struck a slight, plaintive figure as he stood before a crowded Washington press conference this week to plead for understanding. "We believe that our country has been unfairly maligned," the balding, soft-spoken man told the assembled reporters. "We believe that we have been subjected to criticism that we do not deserve." For his role serving as chief spin-doctor for the Saudi government at a time when it's fighting a PR battle to convince America of its bona fides as an anti-terror ally amid a relentless torrent of skepticism, Adel al-Jubeir...
...plead guilty to not being able to tell the difference between Historical Studies A and B,” he said...
Nearly every female lucky enough to have both a child and a byline--and I plead guilty--has strip-mined Pearson's theme: how to squeeze babies, marriage and a high-powered job into a day that cannot be stretched beyond 24 hours. But Pearson's Kate, a brisk, sardonic, loving world beater, has made it all fresh again...