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...Tigers would be unlikely to recover from the loss of Prabhakaran, who has led by personality cult and has no second-in-command or designated successor. "LTTE's center of gravity is Prabhakaran," says Gunaratna. "The LTTE will factionalize, fight each other and die after Prabhakaran...
...been able to resist such demands partly because North Korea is dynastic, with a cult of personality that is freakishly strong; there are no fewer than 30,000 statues and monuments to the Kim family throughout the country. Kim has three sons from which to choose a successor, and it's now become something of a parlor game among analysts to select the front runner. At the moment, that seems to be Kim's youngest son Kim Jong Un, 26, who bears a striking resemblance to his father and is said to be his favorite...
Jong Un's mother Ko Young Hee, a former dancer, was Kim's third wife. Analysts say that before she died of breast cancer in 2004, she pushed Kim to name one of their two sons as his successor. (Kim's third son is by a different wife.) By 2007, Jong Un and his older brother Kim Jong Chul were enrolled in a program created specifically for them at Kim Il Sung Military University. Kim is said by his former sushi chef, Kenji Fujimoto, who wrote a memoir of his days in the North, to think that Jong Chul...
...ceramics as useful objects and as art. He continues to make more practical vessels as well as art pieces. “I am inspired by the history and tradition of the Japanese ceramic arts,” Niisato said. “I push myself to be the successor of hundreds of years of history, and I see myself as both an extension and a frontrunner of ceramic art in Japan.”The glowing nature of Niisato’s work gives the large variety of sizes and shapes amongst his works a similarly striking beauty...
...Manuel, 53, resigned on Sept. 23 last year, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange fell 4% in minutes. Actually, Manuel wasn't going anywhere. President Thabo Mbeki had been ousted in an internal party coup a few days earlier and protocol demanded Manuel step down before being reappointed by Mbeki's successor. When that was explained, the markets recovered quickly...