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April 03, 2013 | | GOSSIP GIRLS Men do it for love. Women do it to get ahead. That's the outrageously biased way people judge office romances—and another example of women getting a bum deal, writes The Daily Beast's Peggy Drexler. TENSION North Korea on Wednesday closed the border crossing at Kaesong, a joint industrial zone, for the first time since 2009. Around 800 South Koreans who were there overnight were allowed to return, South Korea said. The industrial complex, launched in 2003, is the last functional border crossing between the two Koreas, and is home to more than 120 factories that employ more than 50,000 managers from North Korea. South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se appeared in Washington on Wednesday with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who vowed to defend the U.S. and its "treaty ally" from threats from the North. UNDER PRESSURE Seriously, what is left in the Senate's gun bill? On Wednesday, increased penalties for straw purchases of guns—one of the key provisions—looked in danger of being cut from the bill following pressure from the .... you guessed it, National Rifle Association. The provision passed through the Senate Judiciary Committee without a problem, but the NRA has called for the language to be changed so the penalties can be applied only if police can prove the straw purchaser intended to break the law. Meanwhile, Asa Hutchinson, the former Republican congressman who led the NRA's school safety initiative, said on Tuesday he was "absolutely" in favor of gun background checks. But the provocateur couldn't stop there, once again calling for guns to be in every school. REBEL WITH A CAUSE Evan Ebel, the man suspected of killing Colorado prison chief Tom Clements, slipped off his ankle monitor in violation of his parole days before his alleged killing spree—and Department of Corrections didn't notice for five days, according to documents released on Tuesday. By the time the Department of Corrections noticed the violation, Clements, his wife, and pizza delivery man Nathan Leon had been killed, and Ebel was heading south in a black Cadillac DeVille. Ebel was killed by police in a shootout with Texas police on March 21. On Monday, a district court apologized for the clerical error that resulted in Ebel's release four years too soon. | | 
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