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That was much more like the new Kim the CIA sometimes hears about, a man who is reportedly an avid watcher of CNN and at least a onetime surfer of the Internet. On a trip to Beijing last month, he told his hosts he was cutting back on his drinking. Kim's "calculated move" to change his image, says Koh Yu Hwan, a North Korean expert at Dongguk University in Seoul, was "a stunning success...
...what end? There was little to fault in the way Kim Jong Il comported himself at the summit (although commentators in Seoul wryly noted that during one of the celebrations he slung back 10 glasses of wine to five for President Kim). As the euphoria fades, however, the reality checks have begun. Some observers warn that this could be yet another North Korean plot, elaborately staged to make the South let down its guard. On the other hand, if Pyongyang is sincere, what next? The agreement signed by the two Kims is skimpy on details. Reuniting separated families...
...Kim seems to want more access to money, food and technology--if he can get it without loosening his grip on power. There may be other motives. China has been pressuring Kim to open up--mostly out of fear that North Korean intransigence could lead to a bigger U.S. presence in Asia. In Washington, U.S. officials say the root of Kim's shift may be that the Dear Leader has realized there's no future in being a rogue. It's a message Kim seems to have absorbed. The smiling fellow who waved his South Korean partner goodbye at week...
...Jeff Probst, former host of VH1's Rock 'n' Roll Jeopardy! and challenger to Regis for luckiest-man-in-America status--despite all this, viewers have embraced the desert-island soap with fascination and bemused contempt. Does Dirk have a crush on Kelly? Will Ramona throw up again? Kim Reed, 27, of Syracuse N.Y., who writes for the website mightybigtv.com watches it while on the phone with friends. "I cannot tear myself away," she says. "I have watched every season of The Real World, and it does not compare to the evilness of this show...
...from television. (Oh, just for a minute. You can do it.) Our culture is deep into a populist period of personal confession, the First-Person Era. There's the unflagging craze for memoirs--especially ordinary people's tales of woe, like Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes and Elizabeth Kim's story of orphanhood, Ten Thousand Sorrows. "I don't see any sign of them waning," says Jeff Zaleski, book-review editor of Publishers Weekly. "The high-profile memoirs by famous people haven't done well, [but] there's been an increase in the common-man type of memoir." Novelist...