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...There's more to Ji'an than its wealth of tombs and mural art. The Koguryo kingdom was once a leading power in northeast Asia, able to defy even the mighty Chinese Tang dynasty for a while. Contemporary Koreans?from both the North and South?take pride in Koguryo as a precursor of their own modern states. They wonder how Korean history might have been had the kingdom withstood the 7th century advances of a lethal alliance between the Tang and the Silla kingdom, a rival neighbor to Koguryo's south...
...experimental Warp label). As former slam poets, emcees Priest, Beans and M. Sayyid rhyme multisyllables like androids possessed by funk, their unfathomable words sounding vaguely familiar at times—like lyrics about hip hop lyrics. They attack the mic with a coordinated fervor not seen since early Wu-Tang or Souls of Mischief, or even the Beastie Boys...
...used as ovens. Ned's Cafe, the village restaurant, specializes in hangi, serving up the kind of hearty WWII-vintage meals that gave British food its bad name. But even the luncheon meat and chicken with stuffing comes out moist and pleasant, and made very palatable by the tang of the salts. Dessert, inevitably, is steamed pudding...
...county are putting up one of the most remarkable fights. Several families have defied arrest and harassment by organizing a campaign to impeach officials they accuse of gross incompetence and corruption. Their movement comes to a head this week with a motion to impeach the county's police chief?Tang Jili?and the vice county magistrate on charges of corruption. It will probably fail, but it's one of the most daring attempts to date of Chinese citizens trying to get at local mandarins who still wield immeasurable power. It's at the county level that taxation and police matters...
...Police in Lanshan insist they've handled all their cases properly, including those of the victims in unburied coffins. "We're still looking for some suspects who were released for lack of evidence but they didn't bribe their way out," says police chief Tang. He offers a different explanation for Liang's activism: "He's angry that his veteran's benefits ran out, and when the government refused to give more he started making trouble." He paints Liang as a loudmouth who police have detained three times: first, for swiping police handcuffs and truncheons, then for swearing at officers...