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...world's leaders, Kim, 60, may be the most strange, despite his effort in recent years to appear less so. Before he ascended to power, when his predecessor and father Kim Il Sung died in 1994, he was regarded outside North Korea as something of a joke--a pampered playboy who, with his Mao-era leisure suits, puffed-up coiffure and shoe lifts, would likely falter in his father's footsteps. Though he's maintained his singular sense of style, Kim has lessened his reputation for kookiness. The first time the outside world got a good look...
...writes, "I hunger for a new approach to my music, but seriously, this is going a bit far." He adds, with sepulchral sarcasm, "Please, drown out my vocals and produce a video that blasphemizes my ?Jailhouse Rock' dance sequence. No, I'm begging you. Please, make me into a joke as you fill your pockets. I'd really appreciate it. I really want this tacked on the end of my legacy...
...might continue, as she did, “I don’t know if it was a lighthearted joke and he wanted people to laugh, but we didn?...
...moment's notice. "Just last week I called at 5 and said come over for meat loaf and mashed potatoes, and they were here at 6." About the well-publicized policy split between the Vice President and Secretary of State Colin Powell, Lynne says, "I don't joke with Alma Powell about it," noting about her good friend, "There can be differences of opinion without there being personal differences...
...lies; the war against terrorism and the contest with Iraq, they think, are all about oil, or protecting Israel, or completing his Dad's unfinished business. Suggestions that the Administration is genuinely committed, say, to building democracy in the Middle East, are treated as a bit of a joke. And it is an open secret that this Administration is split. Even if Bush believes that nation building and extending a "just peace" is a priority, it is not clear that all his colleagues do. Here's one measure: the Pentagon seems so little concerned about supporting the new Afghan government...