40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight.
“Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.”
“There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.”