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...when Maazel took the podium, to prolonged applause, it became quickly clear that the evening would be one of rare power and emotion. North Korean and U.S. flags stood at either end of the stage, and the entire audience rose as both nations' anthems were played. From that point on, for the next two hours, it was hard to remember that during the bus ride that afternoon, we had passed a poster of a giant fist slamming a helpless little Uncle Sam that read, "Smash the USA." When he introduced George Gershwin's An American in Paris, Maazel told...
...local officials regarded as allies of the company. At one recent protest, a crowd of about 200 people occupied a government compound to demand the resignation of a village chief. The demonstration began almost casually, with families picnicking or resting beneath the shade of a banyan tree. But tempers rose with the broiling midday heat. A squad of policemen armed with machine guns arrived and took up a position opposite the protesters. "Please respect our suffering," a man shouted through a loudspeaker. A scuffle broke out between police and protesters, and the policemen surged forward, kicking and pushing the scattering...
...former businessman who himself rose from poverty, Lee made the centerpiece of his speech a commitment to move "from the age of ideology to one of pragmatism," and promised a set of measures to revive and liberalize the economy, not that the casual visitor to Korea would notice much sclerotic about the pace of development there. After a decade in which the old automatic warmth for the U.S. had seemed to cool - as a younger generation of Koreans, with no personal memory of the shared fight against communism, came to maturity - Lee promised to take his country's foreign relations...
...bouquet of pink spread beyond the ice. Male coaches wore salmon-colored ties while female coaches wrapped themselves in scarves of rose. Even the audience resembled a sea of coral pink as attendees received pink bracelets and ribbon pins...
...Pyongyang. And as he stood in front of a standing room only audience of about 1,400 people, it became clear quickly that the evening would be one of rare power and emotion. North Korean and U.S. flags stood at either end of the stage, and the entire audience rose as both nations' anthems were played. From that point on, for the next two hours, it was hard to remember that during the bus ride that afternoon, the members of the orchestra and the journalists accompanying them had passed a poster of a giant fist slamming a helpless little Uncle...