Word: totalitarian
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...black and white artwork has been done mostly in pencil, with soft shading, capturing a grayed out world devoid of color. His simplified characters inhabit more detailed environments, in the classic European bandes dessinee style, but with Delisle's own spin. Visual jokes also lighten up the grim totalitarian atmosphere. One panel imitates a Sunday comics puzzle, depicting a police lineup of ordinary-looking North Korean citizens with the quiz, "Which one is the spy?" The answer, upside down, reads, "No. 6 because he is not wearing his official Kim Il-Sung or Kim Jong...
...widow Jennifer Harting that Sheehan is "dishonoring her son by depicting America so negatively." That kind of thinking gives the government carte blanche to do whatever it wants, knowing that people will follow like sheep. "My country, right or wrong" is a great idea - if you're running a totalitarian regime. In a pluralistic democracy, we need the Cindy Sheehans to speak up and honor their fallen children by telling the truth as they see it. Tamar Wyschogrod Morristown, New Jersey, U.S. Harting stated that "a soldier's job is to follow the President no matter what." It's terrifying...
...widow Jennifer Harting that Sheehan is "dishonoring her son by depicting America so negatively." That kind of thinking gives the government carte blanche to do whatever it wants, knowing that people will follow like sheep. "My country, right or wrong" is a great idea--if you're running a totalitarian regime. In a pluralistic democracy, we need the Cindy Sheehans to speak up and honor their fallen children by telling the truth as they...
Rupert Murdoch's relationship with Beijing started on the wrong foot. The Australian-born mogul declared in 1993 that satellite-television networks, like the Hong Kong--based Star TV venture that he had purchased, would pose "an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere." Since then he has danced more carefully to Beijing's tune. Soon after his provocative comment, China's leaders insisted that he remove the BBC from Star TV's menu of channels after it aired a program critical of Chairman Mao Zedong. Murdoch complied, and has gone further since. On his orders, News Corp.'s publishing...
When negotiating with enigmatic, totalitarian North Korea, progress can be maddeningly hard to come by. That's why, when the on-again, off-again six-party talks restarted last week after a 13-month hiatus, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill warned reporters not to expect the impasse over North Korea's nuclear weapons program to be resolved soon. "I want to caution people not to think we are coming to the end of this," said Hill, who is the U.S. point man for the talks being held in Beijing...