Entries Tagged as 'New York Times'

Friday, March 28th, 2008

“Kraziak had moved out of the hood…”

I just returned after over a week away from home to find a parcel waiting at my doorstep. When I opened it, I jumped for joy.
It’s one of the only available copies of Margaret B. Jones’s Love & Consequences, the gang memoir that was recalled from bookstores for being fake. I hope to blog the [...]

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Reverend Moon and the Imaginary Reagan

Moon’s trusted manservant Col. Bo Hi Pak, with the real Reagan.
From the Washington Post in 1984:
With Moon and his family standing before them in ceremonial Korean dress, selected church officials played different religious and political leaders, such as Christ, Mohammed, Buddha, President Reagan and Japanese Emperor Hirohito. Each one prostrated himself before Moon, bowing his [...]