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Most countries let off a few fireworks to inaugurate a new president; North Korea prefers missiles -- or "artificial satellites" according to their official version. Kim Jong Il (the "Dear Leader" who is already de facto head of state) is set to take over the presidency of his late father, Kim Il Sung (the "Great Leader") on Saturday -- and Western intelligence has very little idea of his intentions. "The original assumption was that he was a lightweight playboy who wouldn't last long in power," says TIME correspondent Douglas Waller. "But he's proved himself to be a very skillful operator...
...that the most complicated subject he knew was himself. Complexity is a sort of macho/metaphysical burden. But maybe the smokescreen of the "complicated" is also the beginning of the storyteller's art. ("Bill! Bill Faulkner, where have you been for the last three days?" "It's a complicated story, dear...
Last year Seidenberg made $8.5 million in salary and bonus. Letters that spooled from the fax in his office at Bell Atlantic generally addressed him as "Dear Vice Chairman." For the past half decade, Seidenberg, 51, has been working to make that copper sing and dance with stuff no one could have dreamed of in 1966--video, for instance, or 3-D Web pages. He is also making that copper work closely with its successor: hair-thin fiber-optic cables that offer vastly expanded speed and capacity--which translates to consumer value and, he hopes, corporate profit. Seidenberg, who oversaw...
Especially if your partner is Dear...
Speaking before 275 people at the Codman Square Health Center in Dorchester, 10 candidates in the 8th Congressional District race held a panel discussion about the social issues dear to Democratic hearts...