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...last year. Kim Jong Nam's mother is thought to be a former actress who left North Korea years ago and is now believed to be receiving psychiatric care in Russia. His childhood was spent as a recluse; he saw little of anybody except a few relatives and a cousin who was his closest playmate. His rare visits out of the palatial family compound in Pyongyang were in tinted-window limousines. But this Kim, unlike his father, has traveled abroad frequently and was educated in Switzerland. He is believed to have worked for North Korea's military intelligence agency...
...most accounts, Ford fought for almost everything he has at the company. When Bill and his cousin Edsel were appointed to the board in 1988, he fought off demands that he stop dealing with environmental groups. CEO Don Petersen refused to let either Ford serve on any board committees. Even when he was named chairman, Ford was taunted as "Prince William" by outgoing chief executive Trotman. "I had to decide whether to get in the dirt and wrestle or walk away," Ford recalls. He chose to rumble. "I'm a very competitive person, and it made me mad. I wasn...
Timothy McVeigh appropriated the term collateral damage to describe the 19 children whom he murdered in Oklahoma City. But what exactly was McVeigh's war? A free-lance fanaticism that is idiot cousin to the real thing, I suppose. McVeigh's victims, his collateral damage, were just as dead. They perished without the small prestige of having died in a conflict that meant something--anything...
Detective Dehling (John Goodman), investigating those deaths, sees Jewel somewhat differently. To him she symbolizes purity, and reminds him of his tragically deceased wife. Why, Jewel even seems to have access to his beloved's linguine recipe. She also has access to the darkest desires of Randy's cousin Carl (a particularly delirious Paul Reiser), an up-and-coming lawyer in need of a dominatrix, a role at which Jewel proves--perhaps not so surprisingly--remarkably adept...
...appears too sterile, too clean compared to the art, which has its roots as a dance music and involves a long history of Dizzy Gillespie's blazing, sweat-soaked solos or Mongo Santamaria's pulsing congas. Just as jazz only truly manifests itself in front of an audience, its "cousin" (as Paquito d'Rivera dubs it), Latin music needs interplay with spectators. Especially when contrasted with the grainy, blurred handheld video footage that trails the musicians' everyday lives, crisp steadicam film underscores the fact that even though the musicians do deliver stellar performances, they appear slightly detached and removed from...