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...Myth • The official state-sponsored account of Kim's birth on Mount Paektu contends that there were "flashes of light and thunder, the iceberg in the pond of Mount Paektu emitted a mysterious sound as it broke, and bright double rainbows rose up." • The Dear Leader likes to keep busy writing novels, producing and writing movies and playing golf - reportedly shooting 11 holes-in-one in his first attempt at the game...
...moment passed Felicity simply repeated, “This is our home,” and Frederick, with a mournful toss of his limp, not-so-Byronic hair, wandered away.Felicity stared at the pool for a while, looking at her reflection in the rippling water. At last she rose with a sigh and smoothed her hair.She would console herself in the shrubbery again. Perhaps she didn’t need the under-gardener at all.Editor’s Note: Lesley R. Winters is a pseudonym and not actually a Crimson writer...
...1960s to the mid-1970s were the heyday of the crazy-girl book: books by and about young women who lost their minds. Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, Joanne Greenberg's haunting I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Go Ask Alice, Sybil. There were books about crazy boys too, of course, such as Mark Vonnegut's The Eden Express. But that's just boys. Everybody knows they're crazy. There was something disturbingly, voyeuristically hypnotic about those hippie Ophelias--electrode paste on their temples beneath their center-parted hair, Jefferson Airplane on the sound track, psychedelic chaos...
...Blackstone.” The relationship between Light and Schwarzman extends back to their first year at the Business School, when new faculty member Light taught a decision theory class taken by first-year student Schwarzman. After graduating from the Business School, Schwarzman worked at Lehman Brothers, where he rose to chair Lehman’s mergers and acquisitions committee before leaving to start Blackstone with former Lehman chief executive Peter G. Peterson in 1985 with a $400,000 balance sheet. As of June 30 of this year, Blackstone had a total of $119.4 billion of assets under management. Light...
...Iranian-born Mofaz, 60, is selling himself to Kadima voters as a longtime soldier ever-vigilant against Israel's enemies in the region. Mofaz distinguished himself through battlefield bravery as a corporal and then rose through the ranks to become army chief of staff and, later, Defense Minister. Officers who served with Mofaz praise his diligence, but say he lacks vision and flexibility...