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...Yang was doing much more than that. He started practicing on his own during the evenings, and the game took hold of him. Even after his father forced him to quit and take a higher-paying construction job, Yang's interest in golf persisted, and he would practice without his father's knowledge. ("Who knows," Han-joon says now with a laugh, "maybe if I had encouraged him, he wouldn't have played.) Incredibly, he effectively taught himself how to master the notoriously difficult sport on Jeju's double-decked driving ranges, not taking formal lessons until he turned...
...there will be plenty to buy. "There's probably a lot of financial institutions that hold mortgage debt today that just can't hold it long-term and will eventually have to be sellers, whether it's regional banks or major financial institutions that need to deleverage," says Greg Ressa, a partner and head of real estate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...Filipinos saw her as that leader, but she declined the role until December 1985. It was then that a Marcos-controlled court acquitted the military men accused of killing Benigno. Marcos then decided to hold a snap presidential election to reaffirm his mandate...
...Soviet Union. In a sweep of U.S. helicopters, Marcos was whisked off to exile in Hawaii, and Aquino was proclaimed President of the Philippines. It was a most astonishing political story. Time named her Woman of the Year at the end of 1986, the first female to hold Time's annual distinction on her own since the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth...
...fall of 1985, events began to move rapidly. Marcos declared in November that he would hold a special presidential election to convince U.S. President Ronald Reagan's Administration that he still enjoyed popular support. A month later, Corazon Aquino announced that she would challenge Marcos for the presidency. The military men established links with Aquino and helped train her security detail...