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...also to present the young bards with gifts of automatic rifles. (Note to Kim: Fire your event planners.) But as reports trickle in from the hermetic communist kingdom that Kim's portraits are disappearing from public buildings, there are other signs the dictator is facing unaccustomed challenges to his grip on North Korea. Intelligence officials in South Korea testified last week that Kim recently purged his brother-in-law Jang Sung Taek for trying to establish his own military stronghold. Jang may also have become an obstacle to Kim's plans to hand over power to one of his sons...
...hard to remember a time when CATALOGUES were "refreshing." But before the Web, mail-order shopping was a breakthrough, releasing consumers from the grip of the mall, as this TIME cover illustrates...
...experiences have shown that this intuitive and seductive method can also be very successful. In my first painting class, my teacher employed this method, asking me to loosen my grip on the brush so that the medium could help to clarify my ideas. As the son of first generation Indian immigrants unsure of their place in American culture, art-making in this liberated manner provided me with powerful tools for self-discovery. I made experimental videos on interracial adoption, compared the Mogul miniature tradition with Rothko and was compelled to carry my insights abroad to spend a summer in India...
Billboard magazine does not publish a posthumous pop chart, but if it did, Elvis and Tupac would have an everlasting grip on the top slots. Hovering just behind them would be Jeff Buckley. Buckley was not widely known during his life, and his productivity after death, while impressive, does not yet approach that of Presley or Shakur. But careerwise, he does have a few things going for him. In 1995 he was named one of People's 50 Most Beautiful People. Two years later, on a spring day in Memphis, Tennessee, Buckley, 30, put down the guitar on which...
...HONORED. VIJAY SINGH, 41, Fijian golfer; as PGA Player of the Year, ending Tiger Woods' five-year grip on the award; in New York City. Singh, who also took the Arnold Palmer Award for winning the most prize money (more than $10 million), racked up nine PGA victories and 18 top-10 finishes for the year. He is the first non-U.S. golfer to be named Player of the Year since Australia's Greg Norman...