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...style, Kim has lessened his reputation for kookiness. The first time the outside world got a good look at him, in June 2000 when he summited with South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, he cracked jokes, demonstrated proper Confucian deference to his elder counterpart and showed a clear grasp of the issues. Then came the visit by Albright, the only senior U.S. official ever to meet Kim. "I found him very much on top of his brief," Albright recalls. He was also au courant on American culture, including the Oscars...
WATKINS: I wouldn't not do it. [But] what I really failed to grasp was the seriousness of the emperor-has-no-clothes phenomenon. I thought leaders were made in moments of crisis, and I naively thought that I would be handing [Enron chairman] Ken Lay his leadership moment. I honestly thought people would step up. But I said he was naked, and when he turned to the ministers around him, they said they were sure he was clothed...
...press conference, Lott was actually grinning. It was as if he wasn't aware that when a major politician in 2002 needs to assure the nation that he repudiates racial segregation, the game has already been lost. It was as if he still didn't grasp the hideousness of what he had said. Because if he had, he would have been gone...
...demands. And for appearances on talk-show programs, correspondents are told what to say hours in advance. Kuchma, a former missile-plant director who won the presidency in 1994, may well have total control of the media, but events both in- and outside Ukraine are beginning to elude his grasp. Kuchma's administration is suspected by the U.S. of indirectly selling sophisticated Kolchuga radar systems to Iraq in violation of U.N. sanctions; opposition leaders and activists are increasingly emboldened by the success of recent street rallies; and the discovery last month of the body of Mikhailo Kolomiets, head...
Although thus far the Crimson has maintained its grasp on the No. 1 ranking, Ruggiero said that, judging from the close games this past weekend, teams are viewing Harvard’s lofty status as an incentive to play better...