Word: loyalism
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...hapless at times, and his maverick efforts to root out corruption among politicians and businessmen have gained him plenty of enemies in the Establishment. The impeachment "is nothing less than a coup d'?tat," seethes Im Jong Seok, a member of the Uri Party, a group of reformist lawmakers loyal to Roh. "It's a wrecking of democracy." Many others share those sentiments. The day before the impeachment, a protester doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire in Seoul. The next morning, a man drove his SUV onto the stairs of the National Assembly building...
...also make themselves heard. On the night of March 13, tens of thousands of protesters gathered outside the National Assembly for a candlelight vigil. "From now on we have to fight even harder for Roh," says Kim Yong Seok, a member of Nosamo, an organization of Roh's most loyal backers. In Seoul's glitzy Myongdong district, even opposition supporters were put off by the political mess. Businessman Kang Jin Woo says he voted for the GNP during the 2002 presidential race, but is disgusted by its latest maneuver. "It's too hasty, too early to judge Roh," he snaps...
...during the Berlin riots, Alex’s mother (Katrin Sass) enters a deep coma for several months. Upon his mother’s release, the doctor cautions Alex that he must insulate her from any shocks, because a stressful event could kill her. Since his mother was fiercely loyal to the idealism of the DDR, Alex makes it his goal to keep her from finding out about the dramatic political changes through which she slept. This deception provides the comic meat of the film, with Alex employing a series of ever more ridiculous ruses to convince his mother that...
Despite the advent of Segways, Zipcars and other technologically complex forms of short-distance transportation, Richard C. Cozzens ’07 remains loyal to a classic, time-tested vehicle: the unicycle. Though he admits that the two-wheel bicycle is a bit more practical, Cozzens prefers his lime-green unicycle to more common modes of transportation because, well—it’s a unicycle...
...teams with StubHub deals get about 10% of a ticket's resale price. More important, the teams fill some empty seats and lock up the ancillary revenues (from, say, parking, a set of ThunderStix, a couple of beers). StubHub benefits because the team markets the website to its most loyal customers, validating the operation...