Word: leaderly
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...them off? On the brink of collapse and with its people racked by starvation, North Korea's most successful business is one that involves pulling cash and aid out of South Korea, the U.S. and Japan in exchange for abandoning an arms buildup. Nobody knows just what "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il and his comrades would do to save themselves and their regime. And nobody wants to find...
...Finns in particular have benefited from the nearly demonic devotion of one of their country's leading companies, Nokia, to cell-phone technology. Once a clunky national conglomerate, Nokia is the world leader in cell phones, and last year sold $9.5 billion worth. So far this year sales are up 50%; the stock price is up 40%, to about...
Well, look who showed up at the rally after all. "It was a game," says TIME Central Europe reporter Dejan Anastasijevic of opposition leader Vuk Draskovic?s unexpected appearance at a teeming anti-Milosevic rally in Belgrade Thursday night. "He said he wasn?t coming, and then had the word passed among his supporters that he would appear if they chanted his name. They did, and there he was ? he had been lurking somewhere nearby." The stunt didn?t go over too well in other parts of the crowd, where those who saw through it met Draskovic with boos...
...mayor Yuri Luzhkov. With Yeltsin having promised to step down in 2000 but looking to install a chosen successor (possibly prime minister du jour Vladimir Putin), Primakov's candid 10-minute speech ?- remarkably full of detail for a Russian politician ?- was aimed squarely at citizens frustrated by their current leader?s bombastic incoherence. If Primakov were into sound bites, it would have been: I knew Boris Yeltsin, and I?m no Boris Yeltsin...
...told the Associated Press, but the official did say that Starr?s aides were asking about whether Justice, after all this time on the sidelines, would be interested in taking over an unfinished case (it isn?t). And ABC News reported Tuesday that Starr would simply anoint a new leader ? and in fact has three successors in mind already...