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...Take the cover image, for example. It depicts a scene in the book where Delisle visits the "Children's Palace," a school for gifted children. He depicts row upon row of near identical girls playing an accordion concert with rictus grins across their face, "as though the thin veneer of their smiles were proof that these young prodigies were flourishing here." Yes it looks horrible, but no more so than one of those frightening children's beauty contests made popular in the southern U.S. Or on a broader scale, Delisle does an outstanding job of depicting North Korea's relentless...
...Delisle's Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea provides a fascinating tour of this demonized, closed-off country in a highly readable and entertaining way. What one wishes for, but never gets from Pyongyang, is how the author feels changed by the visit or how he reflects upon his own culture in the context of North Korea. Even so, while this smart and funny book may not dispel the West's fears and prejudices about North Korea, and may even confirm many of them, it will at least give its readers something a little more real than the Mongo-like...
...what would residential life at Harvard look like under a Yale-style housing system? Freshmen would receive their House affiliations along with their rooming assignments over the summer. Upon their arrival at Harvard, they would be welcomed into their Houses, in whose activities they would participate throughout the year. Instead of waiting to meet upperclassmen through extracurricular activities and classes, freshmen would find communities of their elders in which they would immediately be eligible to participate...
During his speech, “Africa and Zambia: The Challenges for the Next Decade,” Mwanawasa touched upon issues including gender equality, HIV/AIDS, and education...
...Ivies went 7-1 on the opening weekend of play, including Penn’s 41-14 win over Duquesne and Yale’s embarrassing 17-14 loss at San Diego. If the league can continue this torrid non-conference pace, it could improve upon its standing as the fifth-best grouping in I-AA and see a couple of its teams break into the top 25 along with No. 19 Harvard...