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...Jong Il's idiosyncrasies can overshadow his atrociousness. With his bouffant hair, platform shoes, "pleasure groups" of attractive young women, and lusty appetite for fine wine and sushi, the North Korean dictator sometimes comes across more like a movie villain than a true menace. In Rogue Regime: Kim Jong Il and the Looming Threat of North Korea, veteran journalist Jasper Becker dutifully recounts the strange tales of Kim's extravagance. But the author is less concerned with the Dear Leader's personality quirks than with the murder and misery under Kim's brutal rule. To Becker, Kim Jong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Deadly Dictator | 5/14/2005 | See Source »

...read with interesting, unconventional insights. Morrow, a professor at Boston University and a seasoned contributor to Time, writes in smooth, clear prose, although he sometimes shades toward the bombastic. For instance, in describing Nixon’s physical features, he writes, “On top, tense, Brillantined black hair ripples straight back from the forehead, like rapids...

Author: By David Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BOOKENDS: Lance Morrow’s Presidential Dream Team Falls Short | 5/11/2005 | See Source »

Clearly, having the ability to call the police if you see something, like a mysterious screaming man with pink polka-dotted hair, is more effective than just saying something to the person next to you who is equally sketched out. But would you now call the police and say, Hey po-po, Im on the Red Line and this punk is creeping me out? Isnt observing serious weirdos half the fun of riding...

Author: By Aliza H. Aufrichtig, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Little Bit of T and A(nnoyance) | 5/9/2005 | See Source »

When Canadian psychoanalyst Elliot Jacques coined the term midlife crisis back in 1965, he was not talking about a man who, upon turning 40, wakes up the next morning afraid he is going to die, goes in for hair plugs, buys a Porsche and runs off with a cupcake. He was studying creative genius and found that for many artists productivity began to decline as they reached middle age and wrestled with their own mortality. Never a legitimate clinical diagnosis, it was more like a handy way of describing the perfectly predictable process whereby every so often people looked around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Midlife Crisis? Bring It On! | 5/8/2005 | See Source »

...with a big closet, big enough for all her clothes. In many ways, Lexi is just like the other women in the room and the others who work for Shamrock. They smoke. Most of them are from Lynn. With a few exceptions, the women are white with long blond hair, brittle from extensions and salon...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What Her Skin Doesn’t Show | 5/5/2005 | See Source »

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