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...dozens of reporters and photographers staked out Narita airport for a glimpse of the seldom-seen son of the Dear Leader. As he trudged across the tarmac, Kim turned out to be a pudgy man in glasses, brown vest, Rolex watch and gold rings?bearing a striking, if somewhat more modern, resemblance to Kim Jong Il. In South Korea, some suggested he looked like his grandfather Kim Il Sung...
...Cheney had made a similar point to CNN on Tuesday, if somewhat more bluntly. "What's happened in California," Cheney said, "is they've taken the route of saying, 'Well, we can conserve our way out of the problem? we don't have to produce any more power.' So they haven't built any electric power plants in the last 10 years in California, and today they've got rolling blackouts...
...find it intriguing and somewhat ironic that people should think of me as a fundraiser,” he muses. “That’s not how I think about myself...
However, there is one factor that has gotten buried somewhat in the discussion of playoff expansion-money. Another first round series and another game in Lake Placid means more revenue for a conference that some have said are struggling. How much this factor has to trump competitive interests will be a judgment reserved for when the conference decides to release some data on its financial health. Certainly, the ECAC needs every possible advantage as it falls further behind the other three major D-I conferences...
Detective Dehling (John Goodman), investigating those deaths, sees Jewel somewhat differently. To him she symbolizes purity, and reminds him of his tragically deceased wife. Why, Jewel even seems to have access to his beloved's linguine recipe. She also has access to the darkest desires of Randy's cousin Carl (a particularly delirious Paul Reiser), an up-and-coming lawyer in need of a dominatrix, a role at which Jewel proves--perhaps not so surprisingly--remarkably adept...