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Despite such reflexive gestures, however, and ritual references to "((South Korean President)) Roh Tae Woo and his cutthroats," Pyongyang takes pains to absolve its southern brothers of most blame. The history books allude only to the "war between America and North Korea," and the North Koreans constantly repeat that theirs is a "homogeneous nation," though nothing could be further from the raucous vivacity of Seoul than Pyongyang's unearthly quiet. Just three years ago, North Korean saboteurs bombed a Korean Air Lines plane in the hope of sabotaging the Seoul Olympics and killed 115 people; now, having seen unification come...
...this nearly 800-page biography, a reader may wonder just how this Paley fellow ever got so far. Smith makes ritual bows toward his personal charm and "genius for mass programming." But concrete examples are scarce. More typically, we hear of the deals Paley botched, the employees he treated badly and the hit CBS shows, like All in the Family and The Dukes of Hazzard, that he initially opposed. Even in victory -- like his famous talent raids of the late 1940s, when CBS wooed Jack Benny, Edgar Bergen and other big stars away from NBC -- Paley seems curiously passive...
...Omaha artifacts were acquired between 1884 and 1889 by anthropologist Alice Fletcher, who later donated them to the Peabody Museum. The collection consisted of animal skins, bottles, shells, and boxes associated with bison hunt rituals and the Sacred Pole, a revered totem that according to the Gazette "embodied the spirit of the tribe." When Fletcher was in Nebraska, the "ritual objects were no longer being used" and would probably have been destroyed had she not saved them...
Harvard's preservation of the ritual objects for study and exhibition has benefited scholars and museum visitors alike for more than one hundred years. Yet Harvard's decision to return the collection, which occurred in response to Omaha pressure, is a progressive step. It shows the University's sensitivity to the Omaha descendents and their attempt to piece together the fragments of their shattered culture...
Midwives, village healers and elderly female relatives perform the ritual without anesthesia, using unsterilized razor blades. Parents look upon it favorably, on the grounds that removing the clitoris purifies their daughters and deadens their interest in sexual pleasure. Ironically, the frigidity or infertility caused by the mutilation leads many husbands to shun their brides...