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...life story became the stuff of spy thrillers when he and his movie-star wife were kidnapped by North Korean agents in 1978; in Seoul. One of the South's most prominent directors in the 1960s and '70s?his 1958 film Jiokhwa featured the country's first on-screen kiss?Shin and wife Choi Eun Hee were abducted because North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, a movie buff, wanted to boost his country's film industry. Shin and Choi made a dozen movies at Kim's behest before staging a daring escape to the U.S. in 1986. The couple returned...
...Rumsfeld goes, Wolfowitz says, "he kind of generates a mini-storm." Republican Senators complained to White House chief of staff Andrew Card that Rumsfeld was keeping them in the dark about war plans and other military issues. So last week Rumsfeld reported to Capitol Hill for a 2 1/2-hour kiss-and-make-up session with Senators. Asked later if he had been ignoring his minders, Rumsfeld said, "I don't think there is a problem...
...First, there's growing resentment among Shi'ite leaders at the perceived Western "meddling" in Iraq's politics, which may make the recent feting of Abdul Mahdi by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw during their Baghdad visit something of a kiss of death. More importantly, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, to whom the Shi'ite bloc turned for guidance on resolving the standoff, has insisted that it resolve the issue both speedily and unanimously. That demand will likely translate into a compromise candidate, and Abdul-Mahdi doesn't necessarily fit that bill: not only...
...going to prove this," he says. "At first I was sort of depressed by that--Oh, God, no one is going to read this book because I can't prove anything. And then I realized, No, no, if you could prove something, that would be the kiss of death to this book because no one would finish it. They would read long enough to know what you were intending to do, and then they'd put it down. What saved me was this idea that I was going to turn the readers into a jury. If you don't know...
...Seduction, a $28 bottle by the Napa Valley's O'Brien Family Vineyard, comes wrapped in a little gauzy sheath as if it were out of Victoria's Secret, with label copy that reads as if it were from a romance novel: "voluptuous, with sensual flavours and a velvet kiss." Says Ewing-Mulligan: "Seduction is so outrageous that it's almost acceptable," and it helps that the Wine Spectator gave the Bordeaux-style blend a respectable 89 rating. But there is White Lie Early Season Chardonnay--a de-alcoholized concoction selling for about $10 a bottle, aimed at women...