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...After all, everyone is afraid--terrified--to run against her. She's the ultimate overachiever--member of every club, top 10 of her class, etc. etc. But she's an overachieving overachiever--she sets up a booth just to get nomination signatures, has a mom who writes to Connie Chung for advice on her daughter's career, and has sex with the first "friend" she ever makes at Carver (oh, and this "friend?" He's a 40-year-old married math teacher). Tracy wants to win the election--has to win--because that's all she knows. That...
...would be sort of hard for us to come up with an `A' and `R,'" said HARMONY Executive Director Jeffrey H. Chung...
That was a year ago. Today customers are flocking to Chung as word spreads about his tasty food. Friends who once scoffed at his restaurant plans now seek his advice on how to set up their own catering enterprises. The definition of what is respectable in South Korea, until recently one of the world's greatest success stories, has changed fast since the economic collapse of December 1997 punched a hole in the Korean dream and created the country's worst recession in nearly 50 years...
...rapidly changing marketplace demands. To make it work, he has placed his bets on creating a flexible, U.S.-style labor market in which companies are free to hire and fire as they please. He also needs people who are willing to adapt to new realities. Koreans like Chung "are breaking the old attitudes," Kim told TIME. "They have the frontier spirit...
...values that support the unions--and the rigid attitudes of white-collar workers--are changing, even more for the younger generation. When former construction boss Chung lost his job and his status, he and his wife were worried that they would be scorned by their three children. The kids surprised them. The Chungs' teenage son helps his father with deliveries. When Mrs. Chung fretted about their drop in status, the teenager reminded his mother of a story she told him as a child about how the local cleaning man was not born a cleaning man but was just playing...