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...behind the actions is North Korea's shrewd Premier Kim II Sung, 55, Korea's World War II resistance hero against the Japanese. Kim took full party power in 1955 and, through intrigue, murder, imprisonment and character assassination, managed to wipe out every shred of political opposition. A ruthless strategist and master manipulator, he holds onto power by the old Stalinist tactic of periodic purges. The most recent came last October when he shuffled the Central Committee, sacking three key officials and longtime associates...
...relative affluence of Wesleyan, a Methodist-founded, all-male university with only 1,240 undergraduates and four Ph.D. programs, stems from the shrewd investment practices of its recent trustees. In 1953, they took an endowment of $18.2 million and have since built it up to $70 million, mainly by investing heavily in insurance stocks -no surprise, since some of the trustees were Hartford insurance executives...
...chairman of R & R, the natural choice was Civil Court Judge Thomas R. Jones, a shrewd and articulate politician who has won four elections in the community (most recently as judge and as delegate to the Constitutional Convention). Jones emphasizes the thanklessness of the task he took on. "They told me the reason they wanted me is that I have everything to lose," he says. "If one penny is misplaced, I'm dead as a judge...
...next 14 years, even when at times he did not possess an absolute majority, he ruled with an iron patriarchal hand, guided by a deep Christian faith, a humanist's conviction in the Tightness of democratic ways and a shrewd political gift for manipulating men. He thought out his strategies well in advance, reducing alternatives to their simplest dimensions, and he dealt with problems according to his maxim that "a thick skin is a gift from God." When the German public grumbled about the slowness of Allied decontrol, he replied: "Who do you think...
Pilate, in which Christ tells the Roman procurator that power must crumble before truth. Pilate, a baffled autocrat who suffers from psychosomatic headaches, asks the same question that is recorded in the New Testament: "What is truth?"*His prisoner, who is pictured as a man shrewd in his simplicity, replies: "The truth now is that your head aches. It aches so hard that you are thinking of death. And I've unwillingly become your executioner...