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...sons' antics and recently resigned from the ruling Millennium Democratic Party, which is praying the saga won't cloud December presidential elections. Koreans, though, are getting used to this. A son of former President Kim Young Sam was sentenced to two years in prison for corruption. Kim the elder can only look at his wayward scions and wonder where it all went wrong, while Koreans look at their former hero President Kim and wonder much the same thing...
...revelation Tuesday that Thomas Skakel, Michael's elder brother, would no longer take the stand is the latest of the prosecution's woes. "I don't know what the sense is in putting on a member of the family," said Benedict. But court-watchers reckoned that testimony by Thomas could have left him vulnerable to damaging cross-examination by the defense, who might have portrayed him as the possible killer and raise doubt about the supposed guilt of Michael. Thomas's lawyer, Emmanuel Margolis was even concerned about self-incrimination. "I was beginning to weigh the possibility of pleading...
...years Saddam's elder son, the wild, thuggish Uday, was considered the heir apparent. But Uday's penchant for excess was too much even for Saddam after the son, in a fit of pique, murdered a beloved bodyguard of Saddam's in 1988; Uday was jailed for several months. He has largely recovered from a 1996 assassination attempt that has left him barely able to walk. Though he is still a feared man, he has clearly been eclipsed by Qusay, 36. Qusay, say observers in Baghdad and Washington, is a force to be reckoned with. Sober, hardworking and deferential...
Health professionals need to be more alert to older patients' substance abuse, cautions a new report in the Elder Law Journal. As many as 1 in 6 Americans age 60 or older is overly dependent on alcohol; one-third of these heavy drinkers are "late-onset abusers" who turn to drink after a major lifestyle change, such as the death of a spouse. Many doctors fail to consider substance abuse as a cause of symptoms. Others shrug off suspicions because they feel the patient "does not have much else to look forward...
...Michael was so totally out it (sic) he was being a total ass hole in his actions and words," she said in one haunting entry about Skakel, who was her friend and neighbor in Greenwich, "He kept telling me that I was leading Tom (Skakel's elder brother) on when I don't like him, except as a friend...