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• Oprah 2020? Why the appeal of ‘celibreticians’ endures
• North Korea’s Olympic challenge
• Speaking of America: 'An optimist who wears body armor'

Oprah 2020? Why the appeal of ‘celibreticians’ endures Posted: 09 Jan 2018 02:09 PM PST Why do voters – some of them, anyway – thrill to the idea of a celebrity serving as President of the United States? President Trump is Exhibit A here, of course. The developer/reality show star has broken the norm that all US presidents have experience in political or military office.

North Korea’s Olympic challenge Posted: 09 Jan 2018 12:12 PM PST When South Korea proposed last year that North Korea participate in next month's Winter Olympics, it hoped to turn the event in its Taebaek Mountains into a "peace Olympics." Sure enough, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un not only accepted the offer in a New Year's speech, he agreed to hold talks – which took place for 10 hours on Jan. 9 –  with the aim to "defuse military tensions" between the two countries. A sampling of how the February Olympics might play out in Pyeongchang was seen last summer when North Korea's top athletes for the Olympics, figure skating pair Ryom Tae-ok and Kim Ju-sik, trained in Canada alongside South Korean skaters for two months.

Speaking of America: 'An optimist who wears body armor' Posted: 09 Jan 2018 08:29 AM PST Robert Lewis describes himself as "an optimist who wears body armor." He has seen the need for both.

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