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...after 18 months, she gave in. Under then ceo John Pepper's mentorship, Reid hopped within the consumer-products giant, rising ever higher in title. But after 10 years, she broke off and started Global Lead Management Consulting. She likens her decision to leave P&G to a hermit crab deserting its shell to seek a better one. "I was fueled by fear and driven by faith," she says. "I'm scared of drowning, and that's why I scuba dive. You've got to face up to the fear and own it to get to the next level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Zeal For the Job | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

...Brown) or because they are new, young, and attractive (Marisha Pessl). When books are competing with so many other media sources, good looks and a marketable image are as important as the work you produce. Rarely do you see an author that can get a deal and remain a hermit. Contracts now come with book signings, public talks, and television appearances as a required part of the package. It used to be that writing a book made you a celebrity; now, being a celebrity gets you a book deal. Bookstores abound with middling memoirs that made it through publishing houses...

Author: By Madeline K.B. Ross, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Trashy Celeb Lit Abounds | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...named Macau's Banco Delta Asia a "willing pawn" in money laundering for Pyongyang, regulators in Macau agreed to freeze $24 million in North Korean funds held by the bank. Given the crackdown, it may well have been embarrassing for a potential heir of the nuclear-armed hermit kingdom's ruler to pop up in the territory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search of Lil' Kim | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

...named Macau's Banco Delta Asia a "willing pawn" in money laundering for Pyongyang, prompting the territory's regulators to freeze $24 million in North Korean funds held by the bank. Amid that crackdown it may have been a bit embarrassing for a potential heir of the nuclear-armed hermit kingdom's ruler to pop up in the territory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Search for Lil' Kim | 2/5/2007 | See Source »

...apartment building who want to hitch him to a suitable bride. Just as Martin Cruz Smith's Arkady Renko detective novels stripped the cold war thriller of much of its ideological baggage, A Corpse in the Koryo is, in many ways, a street-level look at life in the Hermit Kingdom with nary a mention of mass games or nuclear weapons. "Anyone bold enough to try to discuss the North in nonjudgmental terms inevitably has felt the need to first establish a protective bubble of morally clean credentials [by uttering] something like, 'I think that North Korea is the worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pyongyang Confidential | 1/11/2007 | See Source »

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