Word: guardians
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...power," says Kim Kwang In, a North Korea specialist at Seoul's Chosun Ilbo newspaper. "He doesn't need idolatry." But if this was a show of self-abnegation, it was a modest one. North Korea uses more than 1,000 flattering designations for its leader, including Guardian Deity of the Planet and Sun of the 21st Century. Meanwhile, Dear Leader was still in use on Korean...
...largest online news brands in the U.S. Traditional media firms that have migrated to RSS are more circumspect. "We are embracing RSS, but we don't know yet if it makes people come to our site more or less often," says Simon Waldman, director of digital publishing for Guardian Newspapers. Though RSS has been around since the late 1990s, it has only recently gone mainstream as the popularity of blogging has surged. But RSS is not just for bloggers anymore. Big media players are paying attention, too. The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Britain's Guardian and Daily Telegraph...
Duelfer's report also gives an extraordinary, intimate glimpse into the dictator's behavior. Lieutenants thought his psychology was "powerfully shaped by a deprived and violent boyhood in a village and tribal society," especially by the strong influence of his xenophobic guardian uncle. One aide said Saddam "loved the use of force," confirming the tale that in 1982 he "ordered the execution" of a disloyal minister "and delivery of the dismembered body to the victim's wife...
...Harvard, we don’t have cable television. No Fox News, no CNN, not even the Daily Show. Without a talking head to tell us the latest on Hurricane Ivan, the Bubble, with The Crimson as its guardian, fills itself up with news about Harvard issues. Ne’er was a person more confused than I was as a freshman entering the Bubble not knowing what country Allston was in or if Rohit Chopra was a world renowned self-help author. (He was the previous Undergraduate Council President, the current one is Mathew Mahan...
Sources: AP; Federal News Service; New York Times; Guardian Unlimited; New York Times; Washington Post; Elle