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Video LinkThis is a great video (long but great). Dr Paul Lim is a South Korean immigrant to the U.S. who began to get religion while he was a student at Yale of all places. He is now a professor of divinity at Vanderbilt. His story is incredibly entertaining and interesting. And his wonderful sense of humor makes this long video pass too quickly.Given that it is a long (48 minutes plus), you might want to watch a little bit here and there instead of plunging head long.Dr. Lim's voyage to Faith is unusual and at the same time somewhat...

**SNIP** At one meeting with an undercover FBI agent, Jackson allegedly told Yee that the agent knew the owner of an NFL team. Yee then told the agent about a pending law that would limit NFL players from filing workers' compensation claims in the state if they played for out of state teams. Yee told the agent that he should "convey this information to the owner of the NFL team" with an offer of help from Yee. Asked about the cost of such a vote, Yee reportedly said, "Oh no...we gotta drag it out, man. We gotta juice this thing."...

**SNIP** The investigation extended to Yee after an undercover FBI agent who had infiltrated Chow's group was introduced to the senator and allegedly persuaded him to trade political favors for campaign contributions. Lim became enmeshed in the case due to his political backing of Yee. According to a 137-page FBI affidavit, Yee introduced Lim to the undercover agent as a man who could secure guns. The agent, the FBI said, had asked Yee to facilitate an arms deal in exchange for more campaign money. The accusations prompted the Philippines government to open a probe into whether Lim had links to...

Mugabes' £1m party as millions face starvation TREVOR GRUNDY ROBERT Mugabe and his wife Grace are this weekend preparing for a lavish wedding anniversary celebration by approving a guest list that includes the names of African leaders seeking massive debt relief for their impoverished countries. "It will be a classy, royal-like occasion," a government source said in Harare. "The Mugabes will be driven from a church service at Kutama Mission outside Harare where they were married in August 1996 in an open Rolls-Royce with horses in front. That's how they want it." The wedding anniversary party will reportedly cost close...

December 18: The dictatorial regime in North Korea may be internally imploding, writes Jason Lim in The Washington Times. He warns that China may take the initiative to trigger an internal coup that would overthrow Kim Jong Il and maneuver the installation of a Beijing-friendly military dictatorship. This would help China establish hegemony over north Asia. Lim observes that China’s ambition to dominate Asia is evident in official projects to purposely misinterpret histories around its borders in order to justify any possible Chinese territorial takeover. One such case is the Northeast Asia Project backed by the state-run China Academy of...