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China's sports system, modeled on the Stalinist athletic machine, wasn't designed to celebrate the individual. Many mainland athletes, particularly divers and gymnasts, are plucked from normal life around first grade and deposited into sports schools, where they train up to nine hours a day and spend what little downtime they have imbibing communist propaganda. So it was for Tian Liang and Guo Jingjing, Chinese divers who are favored to win gold medals in Athens. It was the state, after measuring their narrow hips and flexible tendons, that decided the couple would somersault into the water for a living...
...Seoul Central District Court concluded that Song, under an alias, had been a member of North Korea's Politburo since 1991, and his ideological writings "misled many South Koreans." Song, a naturalized German citizen, admitted to receiving money from the North, visiting North Korea numerous times and meeting with Stalinist dictator Kim Il Sung in 1991. His son has called him a "political prisoner of conscience," and Song's lawyer says he will appeal the sentence...
...DIVORCE GRANTED. To MRS. OH, North Korean defector whose husband is still trapped in the Stalinist state; in Seoul. The decision by a South Korean family court sets a precedent for other couples divided by the 38th parallel to be formally divorced; the court ruled that Oh, whose full name and age were withheld, is entitled to a divorce because "there is little possibility that people will be allowed to come and go freely across the border in the near future...
...Much of the ‘factual’ material is dull and largely uncritical recitation of Soviet sources,” he wrote in his subsequent eight-page report, “whereas his efforts at ‘analysis’ are very effective renditions of the Stalinist leadership’s self-understanding of their murderous and progressive project to defeat the backwardness of Slavic, Asiatic peasant Russia...
...spent time in the Soviet Union while it still existed,” he said, “the notion of airbrushing history kind of gives me the creeps.” Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. also warned the Pulitzer Board against evoking such a “Stalinist practice.” (Neither he nor Keller specified how the board’s rescinding a journalism prize on account of documented fraud was at all comparable to a Stalinist purge...