Word: subs
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...North Korean submarine ran aground on the South's coast and 26 armed infiltrators dashed ashore, Pyongyang erupted with the standard bluster. Not only was the North the "victim," its spokesmen said, but because 24 of its men were killed, it might retaliate a "thousandfold." And, oh yes, the sub must be returned...
...Korean-language broadcast to the world, the North expressed its "deep regret" for the submarine incident, promised to keep such things from happening again and sweetly offered to "work with others for durable peace and stability on the Korean peninsula." The North Koreans also dropped their demand for the sub in return for the remains of their dead. A day later the North agreed to sit down with the U.S. and South Korea to talk about starting four-power (North, South, U.S. and China) negotiations on a formal peace settlement of the Korean War 43 years after its end. North...
...pairing of Morris and Beethoven seems incongruous at first. The author of a two-volume biography of Roosevelt and a notoriously sub-par work on Ronald Reagan, Morris has no obvious ties to the music world. However, he goes out of his way to mention on the back flap that he is both a pianist and a “private music scholar” who has been studying Beethoven with 50 years of devotion. These credentials sound about as compelling as those of the ousted director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Michael D. Brown. (But when Morris discusses...
...twenty-eight thousand works. The space itself is problematic in displaying the photographs because they are so varied but so closely packed together in such a geometric design. As a result the effects of the prints blend together to a much lesser cumulative effect. Displayed on their own, the sub-collections would come closer to achieving a successful historical investigation of society through photography. Taken together they weave a telescopic but diluted collage of modern society. The exhibit “A New Kind of Historical Evidence: Photographs from the Carpenter Center Collection” will be on display...
...even though we know the results will probably be serious. Why are we not proactive when it comes to the planet? Our negligence could have a fatal impact not only on ourselves, but also on billions of innocents. Matthew Hutchison West Hollywood, California, U.S. Testifying before a U.S. senate sub-committee, Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami, said, "The increased activity since 1995 is due to natural fluctuations and cycles of hurricane activity" and is "not enhanced substantially by global warming." You should have quoted him in a story about whether carbon dioxide emissions...