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...celebrities gathered in downtown Los Angeles for the October opening of the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Robert Iger was a continent away, on a critical if unglamorous mission. "I was looking for pirated videos in alleyways in China," says Iger, 52, who met with Chinese officials about various projects, including theme parks and the Disney Channel. Iger's willingness to get involved in the most down-and-dirty aspects of the business helps explain why he has ascended to the president's chair at Disney and why he's being groomed by chairman and CEO Michael Eisner to take...
...nearly a million dollars to help repay Roh's presidential campaign debts, prosecutors allege. In return, Lee Young Roh promised, SK would get help from the new administration if the company "faced any problems," according to the indictment. During a follow-up meeting in the luxurious Plaza Hotel in downtown Seoul less than a week later, Sohn met with Choi Do Sul?a Roh confidant who is so close to the President he is known as "the eternal butler"?and handed over $915,000 worth of certificates of deposit, prosecutors allege in the indictment, which was lodged against Choi...
...however, I decided to enroll here because on my tour I liked the old-fashioned, college campus feel of Harvard Yard, coupled with the knowledge that when necessary I could hop on the Red Line and within 15 minutes have escaped from it all to spend time in downtown Boston...
Over the past year, whenever one of the leading Democratic presidential candidates made his way to the downtown Washington office of Andrew Stern, head of the nation's largest union, he came away with two things: a bit of advice and the names of local officials across the country. "I'm the voice of 1.6 million members," the president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) told those who sought his endorsement. "Go talk to them." Only one candidate, Stern says, took him up on it. Howard Dean not only talked to SEIU members, he showed up on their picket...
...crowd, packed into the cavernous Air Canada Centre arena in downtown Toronto last Friday night, had been trying to control their excitement as the moment approached when their hero was to take the stage. A rock star of politics, he didn't disappoint. Clad in the distinctive garb that has made him famous worldwide, he challenged the audience to remember those suffering under the burden of crippling debt or dying from AIDS. But Canada, he said, with a most un-Canadian sense of self-congratulation, was alive with a sense of idealism. When he finished his speech, his rapturous fans...