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There are two important rules at Combat Outpost Rabiya, a tiny compound recently erected by U.S. troops on the west side of Mosul. First, do not urinate in any of the three wooden outhouses built over a ditch in the back. The waste has to be burned since there is no running water, and that is difficult to do when it's wet. Visitors are politely told to direct fluids into a hose leading downhill to a creek. Second, when going to the toilet--or anywhere away from the shelters of the camp's twin tents--always wear a helmet...
...blasé aboard the chartered Asiana Airlines 747 from Beijing as it bore down on Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, on Feb. 25 carrying the New York Philharmonic orchestra and 80 mostly U.S. journalists. For many of us, North Korea has long been as remote as the dark side of the moon, so we were more than eager to get a look at it. Television cameramen jostled for position in window seats to capture images of the brown, frozen landscape as it came into view below. Reporters took out small digital cameras, even as flight attendants tried to shoo people...
...tarmac as we waited for the orchestra's music director, Lorin Maazel, and his musicians to have a group picture taken in front of a beaming mosaic of the Great Leader. The minders, whose forced conviviality didn't hide the tension in their faces, would not leave our side until about 44 hours later, when we got on a flight out of Pyongyang...
...journey--and some of the North Korea I'd read about and heard about from diplomats and refugees and defectors started to become real. In the late afternoon gloom, we passed row after row of apartment buildings and office buildings, almost all unlit. People either trudged along the side of the road or rode bikes, many stopping to stare at our convoy. And every mile or so, there stood in the middle of the road a female traffic cop in an aqua blue uniform and a fur-lined hat, holding herself ramrod straight and wielding a baton to point...
...counterparts in Europe to keep skittish banks lending to one another, and this year with more rate cuts from the Fed. These policies can't cure longer-run problems like the low savings rate and stagnant wages, and they'll probably have all sorts of unpleasant side effects (inflation, for one). But you don't have to work at Visa to think they're preferable to reliving the 1930s...