Word: hwang
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...rare bright day this spring, Alice C. Hwang ‘06 went to Harvard Yard to toss a frisbee with her roommate. Within moments, she found herself being tossed out of the Yard. “The security guards came over and said we couldn’t play frisbee in the Yard,” remembers Hwang, who is on a club Frisbee team. “It was annoying, because there isn’t that much field space this side of the river to toss...
Weisberger isn't the only assistant spilling the beans about fashion biggies. In her novel Diary of a Djinn (Pantheon), Gini Alhadeff, former features editor at Elle, portrays a fashion sovereign who resembles Giorgio Armani, once her boss. In Full Bloom (Dutton), Caroline Hwang, a former editor at Glamour, tells the story of a Korean-American woman climbing the fashion-magazine ladder. And there's another--Bergdorf Blondes (Miramax), by Plum Sykes, a Vogue editor. Leaks at Conde Nast? There's an absolute flood...
Other highlights in Kim's career include, according to some defectors, masterminding a failed 1983 hit in Rangoon on South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan and the bombing of a South Korean jetliner that killed 115 people. Hwang Jang Yop, once Pyongyang's chief propagandist and the most senior North Korean official to defect, says Kim terrorizes his own countrymen as well. Hwang depicts Kim as touchy, paranoid and vindictive and says he dispatches those who cross him to grim concentration camps...
...heir, setting up the first dynastic succession in a communist state. The dead leader was named President for eternity; Kim rules as chairman of the National Defense Commission. Kim, once called Dear Leader, now uses his father's old title, Great Leader, as well. According to Hwang, Kim is all business when it comes to running his medieval kingdom. Working at night, he pores over reports, policy suggestions and even international best sellers--summarized by his aides to save time...
...humor was part of his fluency and was what made him seem so American,” said So-One K. Hwang ’05. “I’ve never seen that from a person from his generation...