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...Even though she’s my academic advisor she would talk to me like my old-time friend, and she really cares about how I am doing and my emotional state,” says Nam Hee Kim ’12, one of her advisees...
...city like Chicago and brag about the sun-drenched beaches, tight family ways and tasty food of his home state. Instead, they say, someone like Obama would most likely try to fit in while sticking to the values of his birthplace. Hawaii state senator Clayton Hee, an early Obama supporter, is hardly surprised that Obama doesn't go around telling people on the mainland about his roots. Says Hee, a Democrat and the former chairman of the state office of Hawaiian affairs: "When you look at Barack Obama, Illinois may be his home, but he belongs to Hawaii...
...grandmother. And, to the islanders, it means that even though Obama may be the U.S. senator from Illinois, he really is at heart a Honolulu-born, son of Hawai'i who will drop anything to care for his family, says another Hawaii-born politician, Democratic state Sen. Clayton Hee. "It is all at once a message to the world," says Hee, a Native Hawaiian who has served as the chairman of the state Office of Hawaiian Affairs. "It is an identity to the Islands. From the first time I heard that he referred to his grandmother as 'Toot,' I felt...
...centers to flood votes for Hawaii-born contestants on "American Idol." This year's Little League World Series champions from the Oahu community of Waipio were given a parade by the city that ran straight through Waikiki. But Obama's candidacy for the U.S. presidency "transcends them all," Sen. Hee said. "Maybe it's because we're isolated from the other 49 states that we feel so strongly about those who bring out the best in these Islands," Hee says. "But can you imagine a son of Hawaii is going to be the next president of the United States...
...called for. By the time the storm had passed, some of South Korea's biggest companies had disappeared. Mighty Daewoo, one of the Big Four chaebol, was dismembered and its founder prosecuted. But others used the crisis as a spur to tough action. Samsung Electronics boss Lee Kun Hee, his back to the wall, browbeat top executives into rethinking the company. A decade later, Samsung is a global powerhouse with design and technology sophistication that was impossible to imagine at the time. Hyundai Motors, too, endured the crucible and emerged stronger...