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...They have profited from the country's extensive illicit businesses (narcotics, weapons, pirated cigarettes and pharmaceuticals) and hold powerful government posts. No one knows who will emerge as the new leader. Speculation often centers on one of his three sons, the favorite being the Swiss-educated, alleged Eric Clapton fan, Kim Jong Chul (though in a memoir published last year, Kim's former sushi chef, a Japanese citizen with the pseudonym Kenji Fujimoto, says Jong Chul, who is in his late 20s, is out because his father once said, "he is no good because he is like a little girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imagining North Korea After Kim | 9/10/2008 | See Source »

...fan of the late philosopher Norman O. Brown. In Life Against Death, he writes, "The entry into Freud cannot avoid being a plunge into a strange world... But this strange world is the world we all of us actually live in." Could one say the same thing about your films...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Cronenberg Tries Opera | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...effect on the fans of a team that hasn't won a major trophy in more than three decades was electric. "It's quite surreal, to be honest," says Kevin Parker, general secretary of the Manchester City Supporters' Group and a fan for 35 years. "We're having trouble wiping the smile off our face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Flowing into English Soccer | 9/2/2008 | See Source »

Cindy McCain is sitting by the creek that runs through the McCains' ranch, under a sycamore tree that is equipped with a ceiling fan. The spread near Sedona, Ariz., has served as the family retreat for nearly a quarter-century, and right now, there's a lot to retreat from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mrs. Maverick | 8/28/2008 | See Source »

...politician known to keep the same staff for years, Schmidt, 37, is the newcomer. He grew up in New Jersey, a fan of Ronald Reagan's, though he never fully signed on to the hard right's views on social issues. He attended but left the University of Delaware and gradually worked his way up through small political campaigns, landing in 1998 as a press secretary for the underfunded California Senate campaign of Matt Fong, who lost to Barbara Boxer. At one point, to drum up press coverage about Fong's contention that Boxer did not take terrorism seriously, Schmidt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Poet and the Pit Bull | 8/28/2008 | See Source »

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