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A Cross-Burning Mentality By Norma Zager Hate’s whisper manifests in shouts. There are ways to achieve any goal. When the goal is to destroy and malign, lies and cross burnings work wonders. Just ask anyone who lived through the pre-civil rights era and they will relate evil’s effective methods. Growing up, I was slowly introduced to racism. My first friends were two blacks girls, Doris and Evelyn. I adored them. They were a bit older and would take me with them to the drugstore to buy bubble gum or penny candy. They taught me how to play jump rope and...

/begin my translation The Great North-South Divide of Public MoodHamkyong/Yanggang (N. East)  -- "War is not my concern" Pyongan/Hwanghae   (S. West) -- "Will follow (Kim Jong-il's) order" [ 2005-05-20 11:34 ] Pyongyang citizens passing by(Yonhap News)  A N. Korean defector, Ahn Young-bae(alias, entered S. Korea in 1998) in Pusan, had a phone conversation with his family back in N. Korea not long ago, and they told him, "There are words going around here, which say, 'The South goes its own way, and so does the North.'"We are not talking about S. Korea and N. Korea. What it means is that public mood in the Southern region of...