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"People say North Korea is an anomaly," Park said. "I don't think so. North Korea is quite a rational system, in the interest of the country, the system and the regime."
Take the question of chance, for instance, and recall The Killing (1956), the first true Kubrick movie. The elaborate heist of the day's handle at a race track, a model of rational planning, goes perfectly. And then, at the last moment, the sappy lady and her yappy little dog...
EM: Yes, I went to the library on 42nd Street in New York, this beautiful library. I used to go there and sitting in that reading room I just felt intelligent--"Here I am, I must be intelligent. Look at that ceiling, isn’t it wonderful." I was...
In any case, this is a decision for private enterprise to make. The Commonwealth has no rational grounds from which to mandate this particular sector of commerce, especially if their sole justification comes from a law predating the Fillmore Administration.
The emergence of Surroi as a rational center to the deal has been a surprise. As recently as last October, Surroi, the publisher of Kosovo's largest Albanian-language newspaper, was described by State Department emissaries as "vicious" and "unrealistic." Says a relieved U.S. official: "He turns out to have...