Glamour's Women of the Year Awards highlight video (after the jump) features Bill Clinton, Rihanna, and Maya Angelou, but the best line is Amy Poehler's: "Girls, if boys say something that's not funny, you don't have to laugh." [Salon]

Nearly a month after their release from North Korea, Laura Ling and Euna Lee are claiming that they were captured on Chinese soil after spending only "a minute" in North Korea. They also thank their supporters in a video.

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ABC News reports that former President Bill Clinton met this afternoon in North Korea with imprisoned journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling and that they might be released tonight or tomorrow. Update: They have been released. [ABC News, MSNBC]

"The ridiculous optimist in me was hoping they would show leniency and just let the girls go. That obviously wasn't the case. I still can't believe it's going on." — Lisa Ling, on sister Laura's imprisonment in North Korea. [Sactown]

Bill Clinton arrived in North Korea today to negotiate the release of imprisoned American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee. Some say his visit all but assures their release, while others are more skeptical.

Has everyone already forgotten about detained journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee? Advocacy group Reporters Without Borders thinks so.

Responding to criticism from the Initiative for Black Germans, the Dresden Zoo has changed the name of one of its baby mandrills from "Obama" to "Okeke" — unfortunately, also a common African surname. •

Laura Ling and Euna Lee have not been sent to a North Korean labor camp, as their sentence dictates. Instead, they're being held at a guesthouse in Pyongyang, which may bode well for their early release. [AP, via NYT]