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What has changed in the past few years is the amount of knowledge about the outside world flowing into the country. Hundreds of aid workers have been in and out of the country in recent years, bringing with them new ideas and information. Thousands of North Koreans have crossed across...
While visiting Vietnam had confirmed many of my mother’s tales and descriptions, numerous questions remained unanswered. How could my mother board a plane and leave behind everything she knew? All she carried with her was a ratty suitcase and a ticket stamped with the words ?...
For example, Creasie, the servant in the Urquhart home, lends her voice to tales of voodoo in the swampy former plantation where Mercury’s African-American population is concentrated. A wooden dummy comes to life for her in the body of her lover, Frank, who disappears as soon...
Tomas Jirsa, a confident, gum-chewing 19-year-old from Prague, is standing on Kildare Street in Dublin, handing out leaflets and wearing a bright red vest that proclaims: I'm from the Czech Republic and against nice - ask me why. Nice is shorthand for the European Union enlargement treaty...
Though most shared a few tales of wanton drunkenness, from the convenience stores and pizza joints to the pubs, managers and busboys alike were quick to insist that Harvard students were above all “polite,” “well-mannered,” ?...