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...CEOs rarely stoop to carouse with the common man in an Asia dominated by secretive business clans and ?lite old-boy networks. But Kim is no ordinary Asian boss. He began his career 35 years ago as a nondescript engineer at an LG refrigerator factory, climbed the ranks, and claimed the CEO post in October. Now he aims to duplicate the same feat with LG?lifting a consumer-electronics company little known outside Asia into the stratosphere of global brands with Sony, Panasonic and Samsung. "I want to go down in LG history," says Kim. "After death, a tiger leaves...
Toward midnight, in an interview in a nondescript office in the Counterterrorist Center, a senior official describes a mission that is much closer to the Hollywood image of spy work: intense, often risky covert action against terrorists abroad. "Our job is to capture them and kill them," the official says. That means, he explains, taking action "at the direction of the President, by formal decree, clandestinely. Sometimes you're acting at his direction to change the world...
Favorite Harvard Square eatery: The Wrap, that’s pretty nondescript. Or even better, Pinocchio?...
...thought tonight would’ve been the night,” frowned Harvard coach Mark Mazzoleni after his team’s nondescript, 3-1 loss to Northeastern before a sparse matinee crowd at the FleetCenter. “I’ve tried everything in my trick bag. I’ve talked about it with our captains, our older kids, but we just haven’t shown the ability to put together anything back-to-back...
...ethos of the Kozlowski era, in which Tyco, from 1994 to 2001, spent $63 billion to acquire 1,000 companies. (Kozlowski was known as "Deal-a-Day Dennis.") Breen also moved the corporate headquarters from an expensive Manhattan office with views of Central Park to a nondescript commercial complex in Princeton, N.J., with a view of a parking...