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...plan is now under way, and has been since early this year," Cheong Seong-chang of the Seoul-based Sejong Institute and one of South Korea's leading experts on North Korean political élites, wrote in a report, parts of which are classified, prepared for the South Korean joint chiefs of staff. The son's political rise is being guided - and protected - by Kim Jong Il's brother-in-law Chang Sung Taek, who most analysts believe would effectively run North Korea if Kim Jong Il were to die suddenly...
...YEAR-OLD arrested for smoking a joint while giving a presentation on why pot should be legalized...
...headquarters not far from his house in the city. On the walls of the office, Rumsfeld hung photos of Teddy Roosevelt and Harry Truman, framed certificates marking his own years of service under several presidents, and other mementos. In a corner stood a parting gift from the Joint Chiefs of Staff: a bronze bust of Winston Churchill with a cigar in his mouth. The inscription, quoting Churchill, read, "Victory is never final. Defeat is never fatal. It is courage that counts...
Urban America is hard-pressed as well, says Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson. "For the last three years, we've scraped and scrounged just to pool together different pots of money to get children hired during the summer," says Jackson, speaking of a joint city-county effort to create summer jobs. "We've been able to do anywhere from 1,200 to 1,500 jobs a summer. But these stimulus dollars give us about 4,500 additional jobs to play with." (Read "A Biden Show-and-Tell: How the Stimulus Has Created Jobs...
...Eliot Engel, who chairs the subcommittee, said there should have been an anti-gunrunning strategy in place since October 2007, when the U.S. and Mexico agreed to the joint cartel-fighting Merida initiative. "It is mind-boggling that for a year and a half, we have had no interagency strategy to address this major problem, but instead have relied on uncoordinated efforts by a variety of agencies," Engel, D-N.Y., said in a statement...