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...Pyongyang watchers are trying to divine what Ko's death might mean for the leadership of North Korea. Some observers believe her eldest son, Kim Jong Chol, in his early 20s, is the strongest contender to succeed his father, who himself inherited the job of paramount leader?although her youngest son, Kim Jong Woon, is rumored to be his father's favorite. The only other known contender is 33-year-old Kim Jong Nam, Kim Jong Il's son by another union, but he's believed to have been in the doghouse since 2001 when he was caught trying...
...years later, when the movies became the talkies, Kirkland was among the hundreds of stage actors lured west. He had a contract at Fox (?The Devil?s Lottery,? ?Charlie Chan?s Chance? and the first talkie version of ?Black Beauty?), but his two notable films were made at Paramount - where he co-starred with Tallulah Bankhead in George Cukor?s first solo directorial feature, ?Tarnished Lady? - and MGM, where he got third billing (above Robert Young, Maureen O?Sullivan and other stars-to-be) playing the calf-like husband who can?t keep Norma Shearer from Clark Gable...
...than 9,000 letterboxes have been planted in state parks and nature preserves around the country. Each waterproof box contains a logbook and a rubber stamp. Visitors mark the book with their stamp and use the stamp in the box to document the discovery in their logbook. Secrecy is paramount; boxers take pains to avoid being seen uncovering their prize, and they carefully hide it again for the next person to find. Clues to the location of the boxes can be found on the main letterboxing website, Letterboxing.org The number of hits on the site has doubled in the past...
This wasn't the only time Redstone took the lead in orchestrating a shift toward bigger risks on the content side of Viacom's media empire. At a meeting this year with executives at Viacom's Paramount Pictures, with Karmazin present, Redstone stunned his team with a commitment to bankroll more of the big-budget films that studio heads love but that Karmazin loved to avoid. The divide over how far to wade into expensive movies and risky programming was not gaping. Karmazin says he was eager, for example, to launch the gay network. But things weren't moving fast...
Even after their term with HoCo expired this winter, improving House spirit remained paramount for Corker and his friends. Leaving the world of study break preparation behind, they upped the stakes, throwing themselves in the line of fire for the sake of good old-fashioned House enthusiasm...