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...across the Yalu River in northeastern China. The span connects the city of Dandong with North Korea, and every day pedicab drivers and minivans haul their goods across the Yalu, bringing scissors and shampoo, fruit and vegetables, and even DVD players and color TVs to market in Kim's socialist paradise. Train cars also trundle over, carrying oil destined for use in North Korea's million-member military. For Kim, the economic link to the outside world that the bridge symbolizes is vital. Beijing knows it?and so does Washington...
...prove Mitterrand's point, the movie opens this week in a France that seems more awash than ever in the ambiguous legacy of its last Socialist President. Mitterrand's image dominated a Parisian courtroom last week as it finished taking testimony about a vast wiretapping scheme driven in part by Mitterrand's personal obsessions. His illness, first diagnosed in 1981, the year he took power, resurfaces in lurid detail this week in a book - written by his personal doctor, Claude Gubler - originally banned by a French court in 1996 for breaching the President's medical privacy. His foreign policy, often...
...North Koreans in urban centers get almost everything from officially sanctioned markets. "This is exactly what was happening in the Soviet Union in 1989," before it collapsed, says Leonid Petrov, a North Korea expert at the Academy of Korean Studies south of Seoul. "Nobody believes in the old socialist ideology anymore--they believe in money...
...speeches was sponsored by the Harvard Social Forum, the Socialist Alternative, and IVAW...
Beijing 2008 may be billed as the most modern Olympics ever, but China's athletic programs are still mired in old-style socialist thinking. Last week, Olympic diver Tian Liang was booted off the national squad for "violating team regulations concerning commercial activities ... and producing a negative influence on society and the preparation for the 2008 Olympics." Translation? Not only was the athlete spending too much time on the celebrity circuit instead of the diving board, but he wasn't sharing his recent multi-million-dollar sponsorship deal with the Chinese sports administration. Under its rules, around half...