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...prepares an appropriate response, it should remember that restricting the freedom of citizens to travel is typically a method employed by tyrannical dictatorships and not by prosperous democracies. Imperiously declaring which countries our citizens may not visit demotes us to the likes of Mussolini, Stalin or Kim Il-Sung, who, on a more extreme note, would not let citizens escape the borders of famine-ridden North Korea...
After collaborating with Zach Altman, a student at the Julliard School who wrote the story on which the show was based, the show was performed at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia this past May. The entire show is sung and it is performed against a black stage. The original cast consisted of two men and one woman, although the roles are not gender dependant. “The plot is secondary to the way the story is told,” Lowdermilk explains. “The story emerges from the three characters’ commentary on their situation...
...hubris may have been necessary when he was leading a band of trusted followers trying to outwit a military regime that wanted him dead. But it isn't helping him to line up support for his policies, says Lim Sung Ho, an expert on legislative politics at Seoul's Kyung Hee University. "Kim has a knack for fighting," says Lim. "But fighting is different from leading." The leadership deficit has been most apparent in dealing with North Korea. With the South Korean economy cratering, the flow of money and aid to a seemingly ungrateful North has irritated many citizens...
...country singer Brenda Lee. By her fifth birthday, Fassie was already earning money by singing for tourists. As a teen, she landed gigs with popular acts and got on the charts with a single, Weekend Special, which received international air play. Fassie's 1980s efforts--bubble-gum pop sung mainly in English--were musically unremarkable. But young South Africans loved the lyrics of songs like Too Late for Mama that reflected the realities of the apartheid era, so Fassie became the princess of local music...
...this kind of lament from Westerners, from whom it betrays a kind of reverse Ugly Americanism, a tourist's disappointment that the natives won't be more authentic. But Tarika has no problem following Aretina with a cover of the Ronettes' Be My Baby, which Rasoanaivo remembers first hearing sung in Malagasy...