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January 17, 2012 | | WAR OF WORDS Monday night was all right for fighting at the Myrtle Beach, S.C., debate, as the remaining Republican candidates for president took aim at the frontrunner—and each other. But will their best efforts to take down Mitt Romney even make a dent? Daily Beast contributors Howard Kurtz, Michelle Cottle, Paul Begala, Andrew Sullivan, Andrew Romano, and Peter Beinart examine Monday night’s debate. TRAGIC Italian rescuers blasted holes in the side of the Costa Concordia on Tuesday in a desperate attempt to find any of the 29 missing people while seas are still calm. A looming storm with high winds and six-foot waves threatens to carry the sunken vessel out to sea or break it up—and cause an environmental disaster. Barbie Latza Nadeau reports from Italy. Transparency You may soon get to find out who your doctor is sponsored by. As part of the new health-care law, the Obama administration will require drug companies to reveal the payments they make to doctors for research, consulting, speaking, travel, and entertainment. Nearly a quarter of doctors take cash payments from pharmaceutical and device companies, while nearly two thirds accept gifts of food, according to The New York Times. The new requirements will go into effect sometime after Feb. 17, when the public comment period ends. Siblings There seems to be little love lost between Kim Jong-un and Kim Jong-nam, the North Korean heir's half-brother. Kim Jong-nam, the eldest son of Kim Jong-il, says his younger brother will fail. A book due out in Japan this week writes that Kim Jong-nam “sees his brother failing. He thinks he [Kim Jong-un] has a lack of experience, he's too young, and he didn't have enough time to be groomed.” Kim Jong-nam lives in exile in China and Macau. He enraged his father a decade ago when he got caught trying to sneak into Japan in order to visit Disneyland—though he says in the new book that he was exiled for speaking out against the country's military-first policy. FIGHT When asked about the Obama administration blocking South Carolina’s voter-identification law, and his support for the controversial law, Rick Perry said he believes that Texas is under assault by the federal government, while “South Carolina is at war with the federal government.” He then launched into a tirade about President Obama’s “war on organized religion.” | | 
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