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...illegal bootleg videos of South Korean TV dramas now flooding into the country from China, according to North Korean defectors. In May, Kim took another big step back from greater openness when he shut down North Korea's new cell-phone system. That order came a month after a train mysteriously exploded in Ryongchon station, near the northern border, within hours of Kim's expected passage through the town on his way back from a trip to China. "Kim is still in control," said Peter Beck, head of the Seoul office of the International Crisis Group, a nongovernmental organization that...
...Harvard actually has good benefits and it’s a good place to work,” she said. “The problem is, the University doesn’t train its management very well...
...what you're looking for is delicate magic, the answer is no. It's just a clunky story--adapted from the children's book by Chris Van Allsburg--of a kid falling asleep on Christmas Eve, seriously doubting the existence of Santa Claus, then dreaming of the eponymous train pulling into his front yard and transporting him to the North Pole. There he finds a not particularly jolly old St. Nick presiding over a kind of super Wal-Mart, in which, you can be sure, the elves toil without protection of a union contract. The mass adoration that greets this...
Maybe it's the moment when the speeding train screeches to a stop about an inch and a half from your nose. Or possibly it's a much simpler effect--a snowfall that seems to be drifting down on you right there in the theater. Anyway, at some point very early in the 3-D IMAX version of The Polar Express, technology trumps banality and you helplessly surrender to the shock and awe of this big, often thunderous movie. And to a certain pity for the great mass of people obliged to conduct their children to the thousands of theaters...
...that's not why we're here--not at the IMAX installation, anyway. We're here for the train. Or, more particularly, it's vertiginous journey. It is all S curves and roller-coaster ups and downs, with a skidding voyage across a literally trackless ice sheet thrown in for good measure. Older crocks will be reminded of the Cinerama adventures of their misspent youths, but this time the process is perfect--no annoying jiggles where the three screens of the old technology never quite matched. There are times when you'll pull back in your seat to avoid some...