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...turned over its top job to a farm boy from a tiny village in eastern South Korea. Kim Ssang Su spent his childhood knee-deep in the family's rice paddies. Even now, Kim is a bit of a fish out of water. He took over from the debonair John Koo, a senior member of LG's prestigious founding family. Kim has never worked outside Korea or, before becoming CEO, even at LG's glitzy Seoul headquarters, known locally as the "Twin Towers." He had spent his entire career buried in LG's stuffy bureaucracy at the company's main...
...documentary, The Fog of War. Unfortunately, I arrived just a moment too late to get a seat in the auditorium; the most I could do was watch the video feed from the overflow room. This made the whole occasion seem even more surreal. Robert McNamara—debonair, genial and still very lucid at age 87—sat just a room away, before 700 members of the Harvard community, who, The Crimson reported, “received him with courteous applause...
...farewell Gucci collection, Tom Ford spiffed up the international playboy look with loafers, ascots and a new "twinset"--a V-neck sweater worn over a turtleneck. Valentino featured Argyle sweaters worn with debonair velvet trousers. Accessories for the after-5 gin-and-tonic set include pocket squares, cuff links and tie bars. And don't leave home without a classic blazer, acceptable dress code at any country club...
...much as it would be great to see droves of Harvard dating-novices finally working up the nerve to make a move, it seems unlikely that the idea of saving a few extra bucks will instantly turn a timid Joe Harvard into Mr. Debonair...
DIED. GIOVANNI AGNELLI, 81, debonair patriarch of Italian automaker Fiat; in Turin, Italy. Founded by his grandfather in 1899, Fiat was run by Agnelli as president for 30 years until 1996, and he retained control until he was diagnosed with prostate cancer last year. Agnelli helped industrialize postwar Italy; under him, Fiat became the country's largest company. Its workers had a slogan: "Agnelli is Fiat, Fiat is Turin, and Turin is Italy." But competition from other European car makers saw Fiat's share of the Italian auto market drop from 60% to 39% in the late 1990s, and recently...