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...North Korea Dear Leader in Decline? After Kim Jong Il failed to attend a parade marking the country's 60th anniversary, rumors began circulating that the secretive North Korean leader's health was deteriorating. State media have not reported a public appearance by Kim since Aug. 14, though Western intelligence officials say the 66-year-old dictator has manipulated such reports before. White House officials could not confirm the rumors but said they are monitoring the "opaque" nation amid stalled talks over its nuclear program. The Dear Leader assumed power in 1994 after the death of his father, North Korea...
...being "wrong for America," the crowd ignores him and chants her name instead. The line to enter a Lancaster, Pa., event winds half a mile through a parking lot, where thousands wait as long as 90 minutes to get a glimpse of her. After driving almost an hour to attend her first political rally ever, Suzanne Cook of Coatesville, Pa., offers an explanation: "The fact that she's a woman...
...student feedback from past first-year offerings and producing this year’s program. After receiving a favorable response to small-scale evening social events last year, this year the FDO is offering cooking classes and television viewings in small venues. Yesterday evening, freshmen had the opportunity to attend programmed options that included a screening of the popular TV show “Lost” in the common room of Grays and a game of Risk in Straus. “The really large events like the ice cream social, it’s hard to have meaningful...
...Christian right. They live in the suburbs, hold graduate degrees, and while they might not want their children reading certain novels, would be embarrassed by attempts to ban certain books from libraries, as Palin is reported to have briefly considered while mayor of Wasilla, Alaska. They don't attend churches where speakers charge that violence against Israelis is divine punishment for the failure of Jews to accept Jesus, as happened at one of Palin's churches two weeks ago (though Palin has now issued a statement saying she does not agree with those views). And they would disagree with Palin...
...Still, nationalist elements in both countries are opposed to any kind of rapprochement. Deniz Baykal, leader of Turkey's Republican People's party, said he would prefer to see President Gul attend a match in Baku instead. Devlet Bahceli, leader of the Nationalist Action party, said it was a mistake to travel to Yerevan before Turkey and Armenia had solved their problems...