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...experiment to determine the answer to this question. The merchandise the Dear Leader is hawking isn't really a dog that won't hunt, of course?it's another phony nuclear deal. And the credulous buyers aren't simpletons at a county fair?they're top Western and Asian statesmen. Given the high stakes in this sting and the sophistication of the intended victims, you'd think the game would have been shut down before now. But you'd be wrong. The latest hapless steps toward another session of "six-party talks" in the North Korean nuclear drama, in fact...
...rush outside, roll up their sleeves and flop on a lawn or bench for a London broil. All that fair skin takes a ruthless incinerating; by day's end, the only color anyone's wearing on face and arms is pink. I guess, considering the caustic images of American statesmen and media figures in the shows I saw over there, my face should have been...
...Japan: 1853-1964, has been inventing?and reinventing?itself with a speed that has astonished, amused and terrified the world. For example, he writes, just a generation after topknotted samurai pleaded with U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry to take his "black ships of evil" back where they came from, Japanese statesmen in tailcoats were cheerfully entertaining Western diplomats with rounds of whisky and whist...
...TIME showed that journalism, the rough draft of history, could illuminate momentous events by profiling the gifted and powerful personalities who helped shape them. Nowhere more so than in TIME's selection of a Person of the Year, which has been a highlight since 1927. These iconic figures--statesmen, visionaries, tyrants, unexpected heroes like New York City Mayor RUDY GIULIANI--were singled out because they put a stamp on their world and expressed the great themes of their times. The vivid fascination and significance they represent can be appreciated in a multimedia exhibition, "TIME's Person of the Year...
...Byron. Much of the civilized world rose to his defense when the fatwa was imposed in 1989, though, as he notes here, a shocking number of people blamed him for provoking his would-be killers. When the death sentence was lifted after nine years, he found himself courted by statesmen, entertainers and smart hostesses. Readers who didn't know from Indian magical realism started buying his energetic novels. Did you catch his movie cameo in Bridget Jones's Diary ? The hard-partying novelist turns out to be a thoughtful and feisty essayist, if a bit of a name-dropper. There...