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A Tall Order The economic problems quickly became a political challenge for President Lee. A former CEO of Hyundai's construction company, Lee triumphed in the country's 2007 election on a platform of reform aimed at returning South Korea to rapid growth. Not only did the economic crisis make...
Post-Election Voices On the night before his death, Martin Luther King mesmerized a Memphis congregation with an address in which he said, "I may not get [to the mountaintop] with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land...
Key rang Slater a few days later from London, where he was head of foreign exchange for investment bank Merrill Lynch. It would be a few years before Key could extricate himself from the world of finance, and he entered Parliament in 2002; he became the party's leader four...
Others worry about how far to the right he'll take a country that maintains one of the world's most comprehensive welfare systems. "I just utter one fear," the vanquished Clark said on election night, "and that is that all we've worked to put in place does not...
Key campaigned from the center, but many of those now trying to get his ear would like the party, now resplendent in the robes of power, to adopt what Slater calls "its natural position in terms of philosophy." Many self-made men never lose their empathy for the underprivileged; others...