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Two years ago a South Korean woman reportedly asked a North Korean why President Kim Jong Il was the only fat man in the country, and was detained for several days as a result.

– from a Christian Science Monitor report about a small tourist enclave in North Korea, run by the Hyundai Coporation of South Korea and visited mainly by South Koreans.

One senior administration official said Treasury Secretary John W. Snow can stay as long as he wants, provided it is not very long.

The Washington Post reporter Mike Allen, reporting on a possible shake up of President Bush’s economic policy team.

‘Consultancy’ is the middle class word for unemployment.
-Richard Samuel, highly paid consultant, as related to me by former Daily Telegraph city editor and current business commentator Michael Becket

Style is usually all that matters, when you have no control over the substance.
– Adriana Cronin, in conversation about French culture

Blogs are the c[e]rebrum of the Net.
– Doc Searls

Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.

– from So Long, and Thanks for all the Fsh by Douglas Adams.

(We miss you Douglas)