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...Diversification is also helping to create new jobs outside Korea's traditional mainstay employers, the conglomerates, which have been forced to shed staff to stay competitive. Shim Kyung Joo was working at giant Sunkyung Chemicals' game division when the Asian crisis hit. The financially strapped chaebol had to trim its business empire, so Shim secured some venture capital from the government and turned his division into a software company called Wizard Soft. Freed from the dead hands of chaebol executives, Shim and his young gamemakers were soon spinning off hit products like Jurassic Era Primitive War II. The company...
Abby T. Berman ’05 said the chemistry department mainstay had its benefits...
Freshman center Reka Cserny added an exclamation point to Harvard’s last victory by scoring 33 points—the most any Crimson player has had in a single game since current WNBA mainstay Allison Feaster ’98 scored 35 in Harvard’s upset of top-seed Stanford in the 1998 NCAA tournament...
While Spears is vocally unremarkable, she has succeeded by creating a series of charming music videos that made her an MTV mainstay. The Nigel Dick-directed “Oops! I Did It Again” combined a cornball plot with a Martian princess interpretation of her exotic sexuality. “Oops!” was colorful enough for the young set, yet interesting enough for a broader audience. MTV’s Total Request Live gives teen pop more exposure than most other genres, and in an age of Billboard chart apathy to her singles...
Shewchuk, on the other hand, never made it onto that 1998 Olympic team. She postponed her sophomore year at Harvard to try out for the team but she was cut from the final roster by Coach Shannon Miller. Shewchuk has been a national-team mainstay since Miller, who coached Minnesota-Duluth to the first NCAA women’s hockey title last season, was fired shortly after the Nagano loss...