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...fiery pepper sauce--then explain how he had lost his Samsung job. Often people slammed the door in his face. Those who listened didn't offer him a chair. The frosty treatment stung, but Chung knew that in status-conscious Korea, Samsung is at the top of the job heap, and catering is near the bottom. "Running a restaurant wasn't a respectable thing to do," says Chung. "The hardest part of shifting gears was dealing with my pride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Korea Thinks Small | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...been a social leech of Harvard College...when the supply of eligible young men in Boston was decreased by the westward movement, the Boston mammas suddenly became aware that Harvard contained many appetizing young gentlemen from New York, Philadelphia, and elsewhere...In vain are freshmen tossed onto the same heap; freshman fellowship, brisk enough in the opening days of College and the first elections of committees, blows away in a whiff of invitations to dances and week-end house parties. The social cleaver widened the chasm that a mistaken laissez-faire created between Yard and Gold Coast; and not even...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, | Title: The GOLD Coast | 3/11/1999 | See Source »

...lost his job at the giant conglomerate. Often people just slammed the door in his face. Those who listened didn't offer him a chair. The frosty treatment stung, but Chung knew what was behind it. In status-conscious Korea, Samsung is at the top of the job heap -- catering is near the bottom. "Running a restaurant wasn't a respectable thing to do," says Chung. "The hardest part of shifting gears was pride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Korea Faces Up to Reality | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

...classical music. It has been more than a decade since the Metropolitan Opera gave an opening-night performance without one or the other performing. But few tenors sing past 60, and both men are fast approaching the inevitable end of their dual tenure at the top of the operatic heap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tuning Up New Tenors | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...Thing You Do!," he says of the 1996 film he wrote and directed, "and I wasn't seeing my kids as much as I wanted. And I got into an elevator and this lady said, 'Oh, Tom Hanks! What's it like living at the absolute top of the heap?' And I said, 'Lady, life is just one damn thing after another, no matter where you're living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

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