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DIED. TOM GLAZER, 88, folk singer who, with Leadbelly and Pete Seeger, helped revive the genre in the 1940s; in Philadelphia. His best-known song, On Top of Spaghetti, sung to the tune of On Top of Old Smoky, recounted a tale of an errant meatball...
...relevant to all of the country's crises, whether political, economic, natural or spiritual: "What shall we do?" In Zimbabwe, the answer has always been to make music. Traditionally, the mbira (thumb piano) was used to summon spirits for help. Music was also Zimbabwe's oral newspaper, and the sung editorials often spurred action. In the '70s, when Ian Smith's whites-only government ruled what was then Rhodesia, says Mapfumo, "music inspired youngsters to fight that oppressive regime." Zimbabwe is independent now, he says, "but the struggle is not yet won." In a land where most trickles of dissent...
...obsession with inter-Korean cooperation has badly backfired. "Hyundai's money not only saved a regime on the verge of economic collapse but also might have been spent for enforcing their WMD [weapons of mass destruction] program," claims opposition Grand National Party lawmaker Eom Ho-sung. Convinced the financial gambit was a collaboration between the National Intelligence Service, the Blue House and the Hyundai Corporation, the party is calling for an independent inquiry. Even President-elect Roh Moo Hyun, who promised in his campaign to keep the "Sunshine Policy" alive, has voiced his support for further investigation. Eager to distance...
...Sung Chul Yang, the South Korean ambassador to the U.S., spoke of a “consistent signal” from North Korea that he said indicated the nation’s desire to emerge from isolation and gain international respect. Yang said these signals included a failed attempt last summer to introduce market systems in the communist country and formal, amicable communications with regional powers...
...Sung?North Korea's "eternal president," according to its constitution?has been dead for eight and a half years: he's no longer so good at thinking on his feet. Kim Jong Il, for his part, is alive and well but prone to egregious lapses of judgment, especially in a crunch. That is what makes the present crisis so very scary: not the high caliber of America's adversary, but precisely the opposite...