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...educated Kim Jong Chul (though in a memoir published last year, Kim's former sushi chef, a Japanese citizen with the pseudonym Kenji Fujimoto, says Jong Chul, who is in his mid-20s, is out because his father once said, "he is like a little girl.") It may not matter, because the North's generals can run the country regardless of its figurehead...
...represents the latest and easily most ambitious attempt to fathom such primal questions as how the universe began and what all matter--including us--is made of. When the device goes into collision mode later this fall, physicists will send two beams of protons through the tunnel, in opposite directions, causing about 600 million head-on crashes every second, each of which will create a minuscule fireball that briefly reproduces conditions that haven't been seen since a millionth of a millionth of a second after the Big Bang. And out of those fireballs will emerge ... well, nobody knows...
...read, and for women, the figure is less than 1%. Yet neither Pakistan nor the U.S. appears to have a comprehensive strategy for the area. A top expert on Pakistan recently visited a colleague at the White House who, the expert says, was embarrassed to admit that "no matter who wins the election, I don't have a U.S. policy toward Pakistan to give them...
...appeared as if there was no plan to succeed in Iraq. Though sectarian violence had spiked and political progress stalled, Bush forged ahead confidently with a policy that amounted to little more than "We must win." As Woodward writes, "No matter how he tried to dress it up with positive language and sugarcoat it to the American public, he was losing the war. But somehow he had no set deadlines, demanded no hurry." Eventually, Bush ceded the responsibility for a new strategy to National Security Adviser Steve Hadley, who pushed ahead with the idea of a troop surge despite...
...McCain operation, which knows a thing or two about biography, is betting for now that the details of her views matter less than the grit of her story. Whatever its relevance to working in the White House, there is an undeniable power in the tale of a woman who knows how to carve up a moose and can give a speech while leaking amniotic fluid, just hours before giving birth to a fifth child. Still, her first week on the stump clarified some things: She never banned library books, though she raised the possibility in a conversation with a librarian...