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...trickle in from the hermetic communist kingdom that Kim's portraits are disappearing from public buildings, there are other signs the dictator is facing unaccustomed challenges to his grip on North Korea. Intelligence officials in South Korea testified last week that Kim recently purged his brother-in-law Jang Sung Taek for trying to establish his own military stronghold. Jang may also have become an obstacle to Kim's plans to hand over power to one of his sons someday...
...will be able to achieve any results negotiating with the [current North Korean] government," influential politician Shinzo Abe said last week on TV. Meanwhile, one theory on why Kim's portrait no longer hangs next to his dead father's is that the son of "Eternal President" Kim Il Sung is slowly dialing back the regime's cult of personality to lay the groundwork for further reforms. Maybe Kim shouldn't sack that p.r. team after all. --By Julie Rawe. With reporting by Matthew Forney and Donald Macintyre
...nimble vocal range and worked tirelessly on the New York City coffeehouse scene to develop his songwriting before landing a record deal with Columbia in 1992. Jeff's only album, 1994's Grace, was promising but inconsistent. It produced a minor hit, Last Goodbye, and featured exquisitely sung covers of Nina Simone's Lilac Wine and Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah, but its eclecticism ruined its chances of getting noticed in the grunge era. When Buckley died, his fans mourned mostly what might have been. Now a cottage industry of Buckleyana has bloomed to fill the void: Sketches for My Sweetheart...
...cream of the crop this year came from a band veiled in secrecy, a band that shuns playing already-released material in their frenetic live shows, a band whose members include an Avery Tare and a Panda Bear. The group is the Animal Collective, whose early 2004 release Sung Tongs redefined how a pop song could sound. With no coherent structures or discernible lyrics, the band still managed to put together an album that is constantly catchy and never boring, with instrumentation that proves an experimental album doesn’t have to be difficult to take...
...equally hilarious in the always crowd-pleasing role of Major General Stanley—he introduces himself with the ridiculously fast, tongue-twisting song, “I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General.” Howard had the audience clapping for the more rapidly sung encore before he even began to sing it. With facial expressions akin to those of Lucille Ball, Brianne Boyd is lovely as the not so lovely and slightly deaf maid-of-all-work, Ruth...