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...with the [current North Korean] government," influential politician Shinzo Abe said last week on TV. Meanwhile, one theory on why Kim's portrait no longer hangs next to his dead father's is that the son of "Eternal President" Kim Il Sung is slowly dialing back the regime's cult of personality to lay the groundwork for further reforms. Maybe Kim shouldn't sack that p.r. team after all. --By Julie Rawe. With reporting by Matthew Forney and Donald Macintyre
...1960s with the spy spoof That Man from Rio, which followed Jean-Paul Belmondo on a global search for a statuette, and the antiwar satire King of Hearts, starring a young Alan Bates as a disillusioned World War I soldier, a flop in France but a longtime art-house cult...
...time when older workers are having trouble finding jobs. For persons born after 1959, the minimum age for full social security benefits has been raised from 65 to 67. “Raising the age of retirement when the economy is losing millions of jobs, and the youth cult is growing, and midlife discrimination is growing, is a refinement of cruelty,” said Gullette...
...Stenbock hopes planned elections will still take place next year, and says almost two thousand guns were destroyed by Nov. 7 as part of the disarmament process. He agrees the foreigners' presence is destabilizing - "Because they come across as serious businessmen, people do believe. It's a cargo cult thing" - but sees some prospect of an end to the no-go zone in Ona's apparent ceding of control to Musingku. "I think Ona's kingdom is shriveling up," he says. "The crowning was a bad move." P.N.G.'s Minister for Inter-Government Relations, Sir Peter Barter, described the coronation...
...People. Two years later, on a spring day in Memphis, Tennessee, Buckley, 30, put down the guitar on which he was writing songs for his second album, stepped into the Mississippi and drowned. Now Buckley has two flourishing careers. His pretty face and early death have made him a cult hero, while his songs - or one of his songs - have turned him into TV's hottest sound-track artist, the bard of the Very Special Episode. The cult came first, and it feeds off more than one tragedy. Buckley's father, '70s folk singer Tim Buckley, abandoned his mother, pianist...