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...North Korean agents in 1978; in Seoul. One of the South's most prominent directors in the 1960s and '70s?his 1958 film Jiokhwa featured the country's first on-screen kiss?Shin and wife Choi Eun Hee were abducted because North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, a movie buff, wanted to boost his country's film industry. Shin and Choi made a dozen movies at Kim's behest before staging a daring escape to the U.S. in 1986. The couple returned to Seoul...
...used to challenging first impressions. “It’s not like I’m some huge guy walking in,” she says. But she has discovered that doesn’t really matter. She has seen “big, buff-looking guys” fail as leaders because they reveal their nervousness with words like “well”, “um”, or “yeah.” Sarvis, though, didn’t always have this confidence. When she joined ROTC, she expected that...
...soldiers. He builds his own figures, mixing Warhammer components, like its Imperial Guard ("the National Guard of the future," he says) with the game's Space Orks. "It's a way of acting like a kid and getting away with it," he admits. But he is a serious history buff too and has visited every mission church near San Antonio, including the Alamo. "Just don't get him talking about World War II," warns his mother...
...Harper, 46, a policy wonk, hockey-trivia buff and father of two, is one of the youngest PMs to occupy 24 Sussex Drive. He may also be one of the most forthright. "What's going to shock the nation is he means every word he says," says Jim Hawkes, a retired Calgary Tory M.P. who gave Harper his first job in politics, as a researcher in his Ottawa office. Although he will lead a slender, 124-member minority Conservative caucus in the 308-seat House of Commons, Harper seems resolved to fulfill the campaign pledges that brought the Conservatives...
...Senator Proxmire was a creature of routine. A fitness buff, he ran five miles and did 50 pushups and sit-ups each day. His daily lunches were equally predictable: cottage cheese one day, sardines and milk the next, and liver and onions the day after that. From April 1966 to October 1988, Proxmire cast 10,261 consecutive votes, the record up to that point. Every staff member lived in constant fear of being the one who failed to alert him to a roll call in time for him to make the vote. He was also a dogged advocate of causes...