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...speech that Lee Myung Bak, the new President of South Korea, gave at his inauguration on Feb. 25 was forgivable. "In the shortest period of time," Lee said, "this nation achieved both industrialization and democratization." Visiting bustling Seoul a few weeks ago to meet Lee - who was a reformist mayor of the city before he won the presidency - I was struck, as I always am in Korea, by the extraordinary story of a nation that, impoverished and ravaged by a cruel war, managed to turn itself within a generation into one of the world's most dynamic economies. Even better...
...people and produces 23,000 clothes dryers per day, but it's nonunion. "It takes a while before you're making $30,000 a year there," Hughes told me. "Hard for us to give mortgages to people making so little." But it's not hard for predatory lenders. The mayor of Marion, Scott Schertzer, told me that "we've gone from 57 foreclosures 10 years ago to more than 500 last year...
...have several factors in his favor, however. While South Korea's last two Presidents were well-known pro-Democracy activists before they moved into the Blue House, Lee is a conservative businessman: he's the country's first CEO commander-in-chief. While he was mayor of Seoul, Lee became known for thinking big. One of his celebrated projects was the removal of an espressway that ran through the heart of the capital in order to restore a six-mile-long stream. He has a more ambitious vision for the country. Lee says he wants to put in place programs...
...Cliatt said. She added that community input was being taken seriously by the University, especially on the matter of a proposed reconstruction of transit systems adjacent to the school’s property, which could have an impact on local residents. In contrast, Boston formed a mayor-appointed taskforce of Allston residents in 2006 to consult with the University on its expansion plans, and Harvard has negotiated extensively with the city about the benefits that the University will provide to the community. Harvard and Boston are currently nearing an agreement that would provide Allston with up to $24 million...
...Before the refugees, the population here had lots of problems," the deputy mayor of the town confessed to a group of visiting aid workers and donor representatives. Now, several international aid agencies have set up shop in the town to look after 2,500 Sudanese living in a camp nearby. And, with the aid workers have come some jobs, and a few more trucks carrying food and the odd crate of beer. Civilians who had fled miles into the bush, either escaping conflict or searching for diamonds, have started returning, many hungry and severely malnourished...