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...grave: North Korea had tested a missile that could deliver a nuclear warhead to the U.S., and the cash-strapped regime could conceivably sell some of its stock to terrorists. North Korea's worried neighbors felt Washington's harsh line had driven Kim to reckless behavior. In January Pyongyang quit the NPT, threw out inspectors and accelerated its plutonium production. The North is thought to have one or two bombs plus fuel to make up to six. But as Pyongyang watched Bush charge into Iraq, it fretted that it could be next. It demanded that the U.S. sign a nonaggression...
...said that I would have to quit every sport to be good at figure skating, but if I stopped skating, then I could be really good at four,” Pell says...
...single, deals with the peril of obsession. In the song, it's a woman. In real life, it was music. At 18, "I was working seven days, 100 hours a week," writing songs. "Everybody said, 'Dan, you're working too hard,'" he recalls. "I was addicted." He quit cold turkey, "picked up a backpack, went on a tour of Europe, saw my family and friends," he says. A year later, he got back to writing, but vows, "I am not doing that again." Bedingfield isn't shy about the Christian faith that grounds him. He sings of lifelong love...
...doesn't have indulgent, wide-ranging tastes, it can be an artist's nightmare. Studdard got so frustrated trying to tailor his upcoming album, Soulful, to the Idol audience that in early July he called his various managers and label representatives and, according to several sources, threatened to quit. "This is my car," Studdard said, according to an executive who was on the call. "If you guys want to navigate, that's great. If you guys want to drive, then you better get a new car." Studdard is now working with Missy Elliott and R. Kelly on what...
...Compounding Roh's problems is his increasing political isolation, which leaves him vulnerable to attack. On Sept. 29 he quit the Millennium Democratic Party (MDP), ending a testy relationship with party bosses. Roh, who is now temporarily without political affiliation, is expected to join a new party formed recently by 42 renegade MDP and GNP lawmakers. That group, tentatively called the United New Party for Participatory Citizens, hopes that Roh's reformist credentials will help it win seats in the 273-member legislature during next April's parliamentary elections, possibly enough of them to form a majority coalition to battle...