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...Electronics remained a little-known company within one of Korea's sprawling industrial conglomerates, or chaebols. The firm was just beginning to focus hard on quality when the 1997 financial crisis swept through Asia, forcing Korea to seek an International Monetary Fund bailout. Samsung Electronics paid heavily for its parent's misguided investments, which included a $3 billion foray into carmaking...
...Swift's being a working mother might not have been such an issue if she hadn't made it one. "I'm sure there isn't a working parent in America who hasn't faced it. . . when the demands of the two tasks that you take on both increase substantially, something has to give." But nothing had to give until the well-heeled Mitt Romney, fresh from successfully cleaning up the bribery-tainted Olympics, was about to come into the race and a poll showed him beating her by more than 60 points. That, more than being a parent, which...
...entered the national consciousness when she commandeered a state helicopter Thanksgiving weekend in 1999 because, she later explained, her first child, Elizabeth, was sick. Racing home in the face of that is one of the few things Swift did in her short tenure I applaud. But being a worried parent doesn't exempt you from the law. If you don't own up to the personal use of a state plane and pay for it, you come across like Evita, as if motherhood entitles you to skirt the rules. This lapse might not have caused such a flap...
...slowing PC demand on the mainland has followed the industry script: the company has decided to diversify. Among numerous initiatives: manufacture of palmtop PDAs; an expanding chain of more than 500 retail computer stores; a move into Internet services that includes a partnership with AOL Time Warner (TIME's parent company); and contract manufacturing. In the future, Legend expects to generate substantial profits by providing I.T. services to Chinese corporations-up to 30% of the company's total profit by three years' time. Legend, through a joint venture with Xiamen Overseas Chinese Electronic, has even agreed to produce and market...
...selling out. Ringo's doing well too: his boss at McDonald's says he's almost ready for the fry station ROSIE O'DONNELL Ms. Koosh gets nine Daytime Emmy noms, speaks out on gay adoption. Rosie, it's not being gay that would make you a frightening parent Losers JOHN ASHCROFT Attorney General in trouble over student visas being sent to 9/11 hijackers. In his defense, they had nice extracurriculars and excellent essays RUSSELL CROWE Mr. Oscar's next film runs afoul of the Screen Actors Guild. Perhaps the film's title, Why Actors Make the Best Scabs...