The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.
I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then lite
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