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Associate principal bass player Jon Deak later said he was near tears. So too was assistant concertmaster Michelle Kim, a descendant of a North Korean family. "Tonight I didn't feel South Korean or North Korean, but Korean," she said. U.S. diplomats present were euphoric. Former U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry, who once presented plans to President Bill Clinton for bombing the North's nuclear sites, gushed that the evening "may have pushed us over the top" when it comes to negotiating about the North's nuclear-weapons program...
...fret on that vast stage, struggling to retain a sense of purpose. "Welcome to the future," thinks Djan Seriy bitterly. "All our tragedies and triumphs, our lives and deaths, our shames and joys are just stuffing for your emptiness." She could just as well have said, "Welcome to the present...
...opening paragraph there is an uneasy tension between third-person and first-person narration. At times we are looking at the world through Nathanial’s eyes; at others we look down on him and his actions from above. Baxter’s strident authorial voice is present throughout “The Soul Thief.” He frequently calls our assumptions of modern life into question by inserting quotations from Gertrude Stein, references to Hitchcock’s “Psycho,” and existentialist sound-bites into the narrative. However, Baxter?...
...Moon posing with Heidi Klum. “I think Jackie Moon is the first male ever to be in a swimsuit edition,” said Ferrell in a round-table discussion with the Crimson. Will Arnett, Ferrell’s costar in the film, was also present. Contrary to his frequently wacky film personas, Ferrell is refreshingly candid and approachable in person. When asked if it was his own hair in the movie, Ferrell said, “That was. That was six months focusing on hair growth. And I did it. A lot of people said...
...bush. Disgusted by the colony's convict "stain" and keen to reproduce the trappings of English society, the new élite soon had an ally in Lieutenant Governor George Arthur. "If my hands are strengthened," wrote Arthur in 1825, "I hope to make transportation a punishment which, at present, it certainly is not." His legacy would include chain gangs, the horrors of the Port Arthur prison settlement, and hundreds of hangings. Though at one point, Boyce reveals, he considered partitioning the island, he would also oversee the wiping out of the indigenous tribes...