He replaces Shinzo Abe, who said the day before that ailing health had prompted him to suddenly announce his resignation on Sept. 12.
Whatever his role in terrorism, it has become clear that Kim Jong Il was running North Korea well before his ailing father died in 1994, at the age of 82, of an apparent heart attack.
"The Terminal" and "The Steerage" are here, but so are early genre scenes shot in Europe; wonderful off-beat portraits, including one of the New York frame maker George F. Of, with his thick beard and candid, amused gaze; and a number of autumnal Lake George landscapes made not long before the ailing Stieglitz abandoned photography in 1937.
Former Rangers chairman Alastair Johnston has called on the current Ibrox board to sell their shares in the club and give up their power before the ailing club goes until meltdown.
Across Asia, the younger generations are less willing than before to take in ailing parents, even though middle-class families today are wealthier than in generations past.
Many of the city's restaurants and retail stores were ailing before the World Trade Center disaster.
Largely because his predecessor, John Atta Mills, had long been ailing before he died in office in July 2012, a sense of drift had set in.
In a policy reversal, the South Korean government plans to clean up bad loans with the cash injection before placing the ailing institutions under the umbrella of a government-led holding company.
"It's been a journey through hell," says Robert Brown, president of NAD America and chairman of Lenbrook International, the Canadian outfit that served as NAD's distributor in North America before acquiring the ailing company in 1999.
Money is everything for politicians like Trump and Romney and GOP candidate Carly Fiorina, who laid off 30,000 workers when she ran Hewlett-Packard then stuffed a $40 million golden parachute in her purse before leaving the ailing firm.
