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...wonder Sunmu - the name can be translated as "no divisions," a reference to his wish for a united Korea - refuses to show his face in photographs and frequently moves about Seoul in dark sunglasses and a hat. "I worry for my family back in the North," he says, wary of the brutal punishments dealt out to defectors' relatives - never mind the relatives of defectors who choose to subvert the revered likeness of the Dear Leader or who produce blasphemous images of the worker's paradise. One of Sunmu's best-known series of works, the Happy Children paintings, features rows...
...debate answered many important questions, but I wish the Dems could have better addressed the Republicans’ [proposed] plans and some of the misleading statements that they said,” Nicholas Pomata ’13, said...
...When it comes down to it, I am not suggesting that Harvard add another requirement to its already lengthy General Education curriculum. Quite the opposite: I wish that Expos 40 was in such high demand as an elective that the College needed to offer 15 sections. It’s easy to forget that a combination of high intelligence and natural eloquence simply doesn’t equate to public-speaking prowess. And—if we forget—we just might find ourselves center stage with nothing important...
Afghanistan is replete with grim reminders for those who would wish to rule it. The British were having a marvelous time in Kabul back in 1841: horse races, picnics, amateur theatrics (something British expats indulge in wherever they go) and lot of good grog and food. Meanwhile, the Afghans were seething over these madcap Victorians. (See pictures of election day in Afghanistan...
...Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,” “28 Weeks Later”) leads the film’s fictionalized diffusing team with a stunning performance as Sergeant First Class William James, a bomb-man with a death wish. The plot, essentially composed of almost journalistic vignettes, traces the ups and downs of everyday soldier life. Even the most banal serves as a suspenseful contrast to ticking bombs and explosions. When James confuses a dead boy’s bomb-strapped body for the young Iraqi kid he’d befriended...