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...nationalism. Hallyu TV dramas are so popular in North Korea that border guards are being rotated to prevent them from dealing in contraband recordings, Jung-Sook Park said. She added the Pyongyang elite is only about two days behind South Korean audiences on its favorite soaps. Jin-Young Park struck a very different note as he began his presentation. “What’s up, guys? Is it OK to say ‘what’s up’ in Harvard?” he said to the audience’s laughter. Mixing analysis with...
...into an emergency safety area beneath the platform. She wouldn't move. Miyamoto waved at the incoming train repeatedly, but it was an express traveling at nearly 40 mph - he never had a chance. Though he managed to protect the woman, who survived with a broken pelvis, Miyamoto was struck full by the train. He suffered a broken skull and would linger in a coma for nearly a week before dying on Feb. 12, leaving behind a wife and a 20-year...
...nice addition to many of these songs was the incredible falsetto of a young backup singer, Theo Little.Jones’ acerbic new sound was a striking departure from the calm, natural sounds of her earlier work. Her more recent music was fused with strange electronics, and struck an angrier and more disillusioned note. Taken altogether, Jones’s newer sound seemed meant for a more contemporary audience that was unfortunately absent from the show.Presented to an audience of old fans, Jones’s contemporary music seemed odd, but not ineffective. As a newcomer to all of Jones?...
...when Johansson was asked to help with a mock photo shoot in which Brener and Rodriguez struck poses intended to mirror those adopted by a nude Johansson and actress Keira Knightley on the cover of Vanity Fair’s 2006 Hollywood issue, she was not shy in telling Rodriguez that he was “going to need to take [his] pants a little lower...
...some listeners, Putin's complaints were eerily reminiscent of the cold war. But as I looked around the conference hall, it struck me that his target audience was not necessarily American but rather more European and Middle Eastern. Like Michael Corleone, Putin aspires to be a businessman. His Russia is an energy empire, sitting on more than a quarter of the world's proven reserves of natural gas, 17% of its coal and 6% of its oil. For geographical reasons, the U.S. is not one of Russia's main customers. But two-fifths of Germany's natural-gas imports come...