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...their leaders, expecting them to build Camelots. But in some ways, Kim has himself to blame. Even his supporters say he was better as an opposition leader than as a President. His habit of relying on a small clique of family and friends and a self-confidence border-ing on arrogance helped him survive as a dissident. As President, that trait was a liability. Kim ran an imperial presidency?while he fought for democracy, he never fully understood that its rules applied to him as well...
...before Asia's financial tsunami cut consumption in that part of the world. Nor will they unless key markets like the U.S. - down 7.7% last year - rebound soon. Export volume for the first eight months of 2002 is down 6.5% from last year and Alan Gray, whisky analyst for ING Financial Markets, is predicting volume growth of only 1.8% per annum over the next five years as the industry grapples with volatile economies and stiff competition from other spirits. Although recurrent predictions that Scotch would be washed away by a tidal wave of vodka and other trendy tipples have clearly...
...which ended in him regrettably allowing me to call myself Neilesh P. Keaton. Then I went to Daedalus, received rare accolades from William Levine [’04], came back to my room, drunk-called my mom and passed out—but not before graffiti-ing my walls with a Sharpie...
...clear that Japan's latest attempt at reform would be yet another toothless assortment of half-measures, imprecise benchmarks and overly generous deadlines. In other words, the banks were off the hook. 'This time, I thought they were serious about fixing the banks,' says Richard Jerram, chief economist at ING Barings in Tokyo. 'I guess they were only joking.' Only two weeks ago, Takenaka had convinced the world that it could expect a set of proposals with real heft. But he, like so many before him, got mired in the morass of inertia and self-interest that is Japanese politics...
...asked council members for feedback about the possibility of adopt ing Yale's residential system, in which incoming first-year students would be assigned a Yard dorm for their first year, but all the students in a particular dorm would move on to the same House for their final three years...