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Ezekiel Emanuel got a memorable introduction to our haphazard health-care system on his first visit to a cancer ward as a medical student. The white coats were ordering a transfusion for a teenage girl, and since shyness does not run in his family - brother Rahm is President Obama's famously foulmouthed chief of staff, brother Ari a similarly silence-deficient Hollywood agent - he interrupted to ask why. Because she had Hodgkin's disease and her platelets were below 20,000, the team explained. Emanuel still had questions: Was there evidence for that protocol? Don't some hospitals wait until...
...apparent dictator-in-waiting used to be an enthusiastic basketball player - not to mention a sort of coach on the floor. Kim Jong Un, the youngest son of the man known as the Dear Leader, North Korea's Kim Jong Il, would play hoops with his friends and his brother and afterward, according to a memoir written by his family's former chef, would gather his teammates and offer constructive criticism: "You should have passed here instead of shooting. We should have double-teamed this guy." (No one, mind you, ever told the Dear Leader's son what he might...
...Sejong Institute and one of South Korea's leading experts on North Korean political élites, wrote in a report, parts of which are classified, prepared for the South Korean joint chiefs of staff. The son's political rise is being guided - and protected - by Kim Jong Il's brother-in-law Chang Sung Taek, who most analysts believe would effectively run North Korea if Kim Jong Il were to die suddenly...
...human remains. Authorities established a massive genetic database following the Sept. 11 attacks, and DNA science helped give closure to the relatives of victims of Argentina's "dirty war," the bloody crackdown by military rulers in the late 1970s and early '80s. Among them is Hugo Omar Argente, whose brother Jorge was a victim of a 1976 dynamite blast. "They called me on the phone and said the test results had identified him," he told a reporter. "I just cried and cried...
...Director Harold Ramis tries to emulate the zany comedy greats. In some of the Sodom scenes, there's a touch of Mel Brooks, and in the traveling scenes, a hint of Monty Python, especially when Oh and Zed meet up with fractious Cain (David Cross) and his brother Abel (Paul Rudd). But for every such hopeful moment, there are 20 more where Black licks feces, kebabs, nostrils or, in the absence of a clear target, the air in front of his face. There is no sign of his comic genius; his performance is all about tongue-waggling and showing...