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...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...
Klebold suffered severely from what appears to have been undiagnosed depression. Harris had an undiagnosed ailment too, but it doesn't sound as though it caused him a lot of suffering. The consensus among psychiatrists is that he was a psychopath...
...healthy people. They're arrogant and obsessed with power and control, and they're cognitively almost incapable of remorse or empathy. Harris had a website where he repeatedly, repetitively rehearsed his grievances: "All I want to do is kill and injure as many of you pricks as I can!" (Among his pet peeves: people who pronounce espresso "expresso.") The journal he kept was called "The Book...
What does it mean for the rest of us if he's right? Top-of-the-class M.B.A.s would have to find other careers, and pension funds and endowments would lose some money. But there's a silver lining: Among the greatest bargains in investing right now, Siguler said, are brand-name giants such as General Electric and Boeing. Private-equity firms can't afford to buy them. You and I can, a share at a time...
...popped for us. We realized there was something special between the three of us.” By the start of this century, the three members had fully committed to The Bad Plus. In the past, the band has interpreted songs by Nirvana, the Pixies, Neil Young, and Interpol, among other rock groups. In “For All I Care,” released in February of this year, The Bad Plus incorporates classical music into their repertoire for the first time. “We wanted to approach [classical music] differently and have it be the sound...