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...elections seemed to substantiate those hopes. The victor of the 1992 contest, Kim Young Sam, was a lifelong civilian politician, not a military surrogate. The 1997 election went to Kim Dae Jung, a lifelong dissident politician. And the 2002 election led to the inauguration of Roh, a human-rights lawyer and outspoken critic of the "old style" of South Korean cronyism...
...Chen’s lawyer Lawrence W. Frisoli told The Crimson Tuesday that he expected the commission would hand down “some sort of suspension...
Chen has the option to appeal the ruling to the state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission. But he said last night he did not plan to do so because his lawyer had told him most appeals are unsuccessful...
Correa turned herself in last Tuesday and was arraigned on charges that included kidnapping, arson and conspiracy. A judge set bail at $1 million; Correa's lawyer says he is considering an insanity defense. The police aren't convinced that Correa acted alone and say their investigation will continue. Meanwhile, some of Correa's relatives are denying they knew anything about the alleged abduction. Evelyn Vera says she never uttered the "she's not your baby" line. "They're just throwing out lies," she says. "What am I going to get out of saying that? Does it make any sense...
...quell shareholder grumbling even before the votes were in. Sources tell TIME that Disney made an overture to an influential shareholder advisory group to gauge its support for the idea even before the full magnitude of the revolt was known. Twelve days before the vote count was announced, a lawyer for Disney called Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), the proxy advisory group, to see if ISS would change its no-confidence recommendation if the board split the jobs. The conversation ended in seconds. "We didn't even entertain the idea," says an ISS spokeswoman. Too bad for Eisner, who could have...