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...problem with evil dictators is they never seem to know when the time is right for a graceful climb-down. The toppling of Saddam Hussein's statue in Baghdad should have provided a strong visual cue to Kim Jong Il of North Korea to abandon his nuclear weapons-development program and come in from the cold. The message even appeared, briefly, to have been received when North Korea agreed in March to sit down for three days of preliminary talks with the U.S. and China in Beijing. But the dim hope that Kim had drawn "the appropriate lessons" from...
...race favorites have not fared well at all this season, as several squads have pulled off upsets to climb in the rankings only to be cast back down within a few weeks’ time...
...never know, either they come in and they dust us or you get your fingernails down a little bit before they knock you off the cliff, and then you hope they climb up so you can look eye-to-eye,” Fish said...
...terrible candidate for the job. His partner, Annie, quickly becomes infuriated with him, screaming, "The minute I saw you ? with the new overalls and $200 boots?I new what to expect: a daddy's boy!" The key turning point arrives during a long sequence of Paul learning to climb the rock face of an intimidating cliff. Wobbly and self-defeatist at first, he overcomes his nerves by telling himself he's getting closer to the top rather than further from the bottom...
Brilliant will stick around to see the outcome, even now that Weis has taken over the CEO role. "I'm on the board of directors," Brilliant says. "They can't get rid of me." After all, there's still one more mountain to climb. --With reporting by Leslie Berestein/Los Angeles, Joshua Macht/New York, Laura A. Locke/San Francisco and Donald Macintyre/Seoul