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...abducted by Pyongyang's spies. Mori recently let slip that on a 1997 trip to the North Korean capital, a delegation of pols he led suggested a way out of the diplomatic brier patch: Let Japan "discover" its people in a third country, say, Thailand, allowing North Korea to sidestep blame. The idea has some appeal, but only while secret. "If negotiations reach a deadlock in the future, North Korea might have thought about considering this plan," says Shigeru Yokota, whose daughter disappeared, at age 13, in 1977. "Now that would be difficult...
...make up their own minds about what the play is saying-or saying for them." But director Beth Newhall '02 offers a hint to bewildered readers: It's supposed to explore how media outlets like television can interfere with self-discovery and the formulation of identity. Newhall promises to sidestep the "heavy-handed and pretentious" and keep things light, but whether Split Confusion succeeds may depend more on whether Colby has found anything new to say within the well-trodden genre of zany comedies with serious undercurrents. In any case, if its predecessors in the healthy tradition of absurdist drama...
...Arafat "seems to be getting the message" that pre-empting a final agreement with Israel would backfire on him, says a senior White House aide, so he's looking for a way to sidestep the Sept. 13 deadline. Meanwhile, Mideast envoy Dennis Ross has flown to the region to gauge prospects for a second U.S. summit with Arafat and Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak. Both men have been hinting lately that they want round...
...picaresque Texas public defender who has a wing of the state's death row named after him. The portrait is flattering neither to Mock nor Bush's courts. A similar Tribune investigation prompted Gov. George Ryan's moratorium on executions in Illinois - but though Gov. Bush made a calculated sidestep two weeks ago with his first-ever 30-day stay of execution, for Ricky Nolen McGinn, he seems likelier to stand by his state and hope for the best...
...their number 30. Name conspicuously absent from Senate campaign posters 34. Copernicus' sci. 35. Sennett lawman 36. Franklin's mom 37. FICA funds it 38. Cartoon voice __ Blanc 39. Sporty VW 40. Kurdish rebels have given up the fight here 42. Congressman Charles, a leading Democratic fund raiser 45. Sidestep 46. Drive forward 47. __ Wide Shut 48. This company offered PCs to all its employees down...