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A mad prophecy for sure, but daydreaming is the prevailing ideology in Ko's republic of verse. "I want us to understand/ That what can be salvaged from our suffering/ Is not in the shadowy hands of our religious philosophies/ But in the charge of stars, flowers/ & the blaze of...
The Louis' newness is agreeably tempered by its location in a 100-year-old building overlooking the charming Viktualienmarkt (Victuals Market). This Munich institution imparts a wonderful sense of place to the Louis - something that many of today's increasingly formulaic boutique hotels are in dire need of. Here the...
Ko Un claims to have been born, firstly, as a mare near the Caspian Sea in 1125 B.C. In A.D. 1402, he says, he was reincarnated as a peddler in Samarkand and, half a millennium later, after stints as a firewood collector and an "innkeeper in an unknown land," he...
On Monday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton finally got around to acknowledging what a lot of people have known since Iran's contested election last June - there's been a military takeover in that country, with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) grabbing every important lever of power. As Clinton...
The Obama Administration is talking about putting more sanctions on the IRGC, with hopes that a reluctant China might be willing to sign on to a more targeted effort. But this is a silly and hollow gesture - the IRGC is the best sanctions buster in the world. What Washington should...