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...boarded eight buses for an approximately 15-mile (25 km) journey into town, and some of the North Korea I'd read about, and talked to diplomats and refugees and defectors about, started to become real. In the late-afternoon gloom, we passed apartment buildings and office buildings, row after row, that were unlit. Outside town, people either trudged along the side of the road or rode bikes - many stopping to stare at our convoy. And every kilometer or so, there stood in the middle of the road a female traffic cop. Each wore an aqua-blue uniform...
...lesson in joint operations learned years earlier on the farm. "Those not skinning can hold a leg," he said approvingly. For other temperaments, no amount of schooling, no matter how specific, will do. Richard Nixon served as a Congressman, Senator and Vice President; he watched from the front row as Eisenhower assembled one of the best-organized administrations in history. When Nixon's turn came, though, his core character - insecure, insincere, conspiratorial - led him to create a White House doomed by its own dysfunction...
...also made comically disturbing objects. The most famous is an old-fashioned steam iron with a row of nails glued down the center, the points turned outwards, titled unreasonably but interestingly Gift...
...five losses in a row followed a 1-1 start. In 2002-03, a promising 2-0 start was followed by losing eight of the next nine...
...Making matters worse, early ads featured Jarvik rowing on a serene lake, but Jarvik, according to colleagues, does not row. The segments apparently featured a body double, a photographer and avid rower who wrote about his experience subbing for Jarvik in a newsletter published by his Washington rowing club...