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...buried in the rustic Hanover, N.H., woods. (It’s not much more of a happening place today.) But Ledyard sought to spice up life at the Big Green. He nettled the college president with cheeky requests for fencing lessons, and he audaciously organized a camping trip through knee-deep snow in the middle of winter. During a mysterious two-and-a half-month disappearance, Ledyard somehow managed to spend his £60-pound legacy, which had been earmarked for tuition. Ledyard fled the college by taking a homemade canoe down the treacherous Connecticut River...
...Dick Laird, 34, an investment banker from Washington who took up the sport two years ago: "My friends think we're out here with Rolls-Royces in the parking lot, but it's closer to rodeo. When you get right down to it, what's so elite about being knee-deep in horse dung?" --By Jamie Murphy. Reported by Barbara Kraft/Los Angeles and Sue Raffety/New York, with other bureaus
Reactions like this are the reason for Mark’s request to remain anonymous in this story. Today, a senior knee-deep in the job hunt, Mark doesn’t want his sexual preference turning up on a Google search. For the same reason, he chose not to disclose the names of the multiple other undergraduates he says are also in the SM scene—people he might recruit for SHACKLE once it gets off the ground, if it ever gets off the ground...
...seem odd that at this crucial time LG has turned over its top job to a farm boy from a tiny village in eastern South Korea. Kim Ssang Su spent his childhood knee-deep in the family's rice paddies. Kim has never worked outside Korea or, before becoming ceo, even at LG's glitzy Seoul headquarters, known locally as the Twin Towers. He had spent his entire career buried in LG's stuffy bureaucracy at the company's main appliance factory in the industrial city of Changwon. He admits to being more comfortable in the field visiting factory floors...
...seem odd that at this crucial time LG has turned over its top job to a farm boy from a tiny village in eastern South Korea. Kim Ssang Su spent his childhood knee-deep in the family's rice paddies. Even now, Kim is a bit of a fish out of water. He took over from the debonair John Koo, a senior member of LG's prestigious founding family. Kim has never worked outside Korea or, before becoming CEO, even at LG's glitzy Seoul headquarters, known locally as the "twin towers." He had spent his entire career buried...