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...Peter Kim, the call to join the family business came as a rude awakening. Snoring away a spring-break morning at the University of Southern California in 1994, Kim picked up the phone to hear his father Sang Hoon Kim shouting at him in Korean. "He goes, 'The company's got problems. Everybody's got to help out,'" recalls the younger Kim. The son did a lot more than that. At the time, office workers were no longer buying the polyester blouses the family company, Protrend, churned out. Sales were tumbling 50% every year. What's more, the father...
...Remember a few years ago, when "Smackdown!" was the hottest show on UPN and it rounded out its slate with rude-boy shows like "Shasta McNasty"? A strange thing has happened since then: the testosterone network has gone all girly. The estrogenous "America's Next Top Model" is the biggest hit the network has ever had. (Little-known fact about TV: women actually want to watch scantily clad hot women knocking each other down on runways more than men do.) So today the network said it would stop fighting its feelings and free the woman trapped inside its hairy-chested...
...where his wife Martha also works. His uncle William Lawson describes him as "very laid back" and "a practical joker." Shoemaker-Davis sees him as a "tough guy," used to being in charge: "He has a very strong personality. He's a prankster and likes to do your typical rude guy things. He's quite the belcher...
...have heard many times during these past few weeks of Senate hearings, is actually a fair description of Bush’s record on everything from global terrorism to global warming. If Kerry dares to call the president on his somnambulant stewardship, Bush may be in for a rude awakening come November...
...McCall Smith, 55, is almost never rude. That may be why he has become an object of devotion--especially among traditionally built ladies--worldwide. He is a particular favorite among literary societies and has met with dozens of them on his U.S. promotional tour for The Full Cupboard of Life (Pantheon; 198 pages), the most recent Ramotswe book, out this week. "I do 150 ladies at a time, at lunch," he says of gatherings he visited in Palm Springs, Calif.; Palm Beach, Fla.; and Las Vegas, to name a few. "Did you even know there was a Las Vegas literary...