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...Korean consumers have an affinity for e-commerce?thanks to the wildfire popularity of online gaming, shopping and stock trading?that is creating markets where none previously existed. These days, nobody would dream of visiting a chat room in the default get-up. Freechai's male customers are a bit conservative, says Ryou, but women like to go wild, taking fashion dares they wouldn't risk on a real boulevard. So she takes ideas and jacks them up a bit for cyberspace. Explains Ryou, who dons baggy hip-hop pants, a red tank top and bright yellow hair when...
...sophomores would not rise to the occasion. Having a full year more experience than the first-years, sophomores have at least as much to show for themselves; being a class that continually strives to validate itself, sophomores might make up through passion the advantage that falls to juniors by default. What could happen to the sophomores after spending the weekend with their parents, exhibiting the exceptional talents of their roommates and friends, attending lectures by the most entertaining professors, tasting the night life around Boston and Cambridge, and continually nodding in agreement to the assertion that “Harvard...
Pedersen said the cum laude in general studies degree is a “default category of honors” left over from the beginning of the 1900s, when students were not required to concentrate in a particular field. She noted that making honors contingent on department work emphasizes the importance of concentrations...
...late 1990s, Walker, 60, a partner based in New York City with the law firm Cleary Gottlieb, helped the South Korean government stave off default by successfully renegotiating its bank loans. Now he is helping the South Korean microchip maker Hynix sustain its financial health. Walker was recently hired to advise the company in its discussions--including talk of a possible merger--with U.S.-based chipmaking rival Micron Technology...
...vacation," he says. Then, hearing himself, he adds, "That's a lot of wants." It's clear to everyone who knows Sanders that this time he is bent on reinventing himself. It is equally true that he has never been good at handling life's most punishing moments. His default tendency has always been to escape, either in body or in mind...