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...Beijing has already decided, apparently, that a North Korea with nukes is less destabilizing than a North Korea in chaos, with tens of thousands of impoverished souls pouring across its border into China. But Beijing knows no one is going to attack North Korea - knows that in its heart and soul. It knows no such thing about Iran. Prior to Barack Obama's summit meeting with Hu Jintao last year, two U.S. diplomats quietly slipped into Beijing and, in secret, reinforced the obvious: There's this other country in the region called Israel and, well, we're just not sure...
...father Stephen King. And like the heroes of such stories, Hill (who writes under his first and middle names) eventually discovered that sometimes you can't escape the past. Sometimes, in fact, it's best to not even try. On the strength of two masterly thrillers--2007's Heart-Shaped Box and his newest, Horns--Hill has emerged as one of America's finest horror writers...
...think I might not be able to cut it as a novelist," he says. So he scaled back, and in 2005 a small British press released a collection of his short stories, the touching, terrifying 20th Century Ghosts. It was followed two years later by the best-selling Heart-Shaped Box, a novel about an aging rock star who buys, via the Internet, a suit that happens to be haunted by an evil, razor-wielding...
...prime-time TV show about topical concerns, at a time when people would like to see some humility in our CEOs; a show, like Discovery's Dirty Jobs, about toilet cleaners and garbage pickers and other people that "quality TV" rarely takes notice of; a show, at heart, about how absolutely crazy-hard ordinary people work...
...fact that Charlie Wilson's heart--his second--finally gave out wasn't all that surprising when you consider how much he lived. Wilson, a former Texas Congressman who died Feb. 10 at 76, was the kind of man who would declare on 60 Minutes, "I love stickin' it to the Russians." The kind of man who would bring his then girlfriend, a former Miss World USA, on a fact-finding trip to Pakistan. The kind of man, his House colleagues used to say, who could strut while sitting down. Still, he was elected 12 times from Lufkin, Texas...