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...been a CEO, you've been a mayor of Seoul and now you're President. What do the three jobs have in common and how are they different? Different names. Different titles. But seriously, all three are related in the sense that the previous jobs helped me better do my current job. I think the efficiency that I learned as ceo has helped me carry out my job as President...
...difficult to imagine Lee - a conservative free-trade advocate who has strong views about South Korea's need to reform its economy - as a consensus-seeker. After all, when he served as mayor of Seoul earlier this decade, he ordered that one of the city's major highways be demolished so a stream could be restored. As CEO of Hyundai Engineering & Construction, the country's largest construction company, Lee wielded a lot of power - as was customary. Korea a couple of decades ago was ruled by a handful of men: the government by a dictator and his aides...
Bing planned on having one child, but birth control was never an option. For much of the last decade, the City of Manila, one of Metro Manila's semi-autonomous municipalities, has engaged in a campaign against modern contraception. In 2000, Mayor Lito Atienza issued an order effectively banning birth control from city-funded clinics. Eight years and a new mayor later, the ban persists. The city's affluent minority buys birth control from private clinics or procures condoms on the sly, but poor women, like Bing, go without...
...architects of the ban deny a link between population and poverty. "I reject the notion that we are poor because we are plenty," says former mayor Atienza. "Poverty is caused by mismanagement, not by the number of people." He?s partly right, of course. Endemic corruption and sluggish agricultural production helps keep the Philippines poor. But government statistics and a host of studies show that population is part of the problem. Access to nutrition, education and employment decreases dramatically when a family outgrows its means...
...fact, the day the Grants were arrested, Duncan was at L.A.'s city hall with a group of protesters delivering a petition to enlist the help of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (who has not taken a position on the issue). When they learned that DEA agents were at one of Grant's dispensaries, just a few blocks away, the group quickly moved to the dispensary, surrounding its entrance while the DEA agents were still inside. The bust proceeded as Los Angeles Police Department officers stood by, but also not interfering with the peaceful rally...