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...embraced even more sweeping reforms than the IMF called for. By the time the storm had passed, some of South Korea's biggest companies had disappeared. Mighty Daewoo, one of the Big Four chaebol, was dismembered and its founder prosecuted. But others used the crisis as a spur to tough action. Samsung Electronics boss Lee Kun Hee, his back to the wall, browbeat top executives into rethinking the company. A decade later, Samsung is a global powerhouse with design and technology sophistication that was impossible to imagine at the time. Hyundai Motors, too, endured the crucible and emerged stronger...
...world is in the grips of a perilous market crunch, the boom is over, and tough times loom. The U.K.'s FTSE-100 stock index has nose-dived and is down about 35% in the past year. Two famous British banks have already imploded--Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley. And after a dramatic plunge in the stock price of other banks, on Oct. 8 the British government announced an emergency $88 billion recapitalization package that includes partially nationalizing three other banks: Royal Bank of Scotland, HBOS and Lloyds TSB. The City has been through enough slumps to know what...
...face of this, some couples are attempting to tough it out. "The divorce rate is down in Michigan," says Gornbein. "People have no choice sometimes now except to return to the marriage." Others are choosing to separate or divorce but live together until either the house sells or they go stark raving barmy and will sign anything. A Boston lawyer tells of a woman who had a restraining order against her husband but was forced by economic circumstance to let him move back in. (Eventually they reconciled...
...called himself the "Godfather of Rap," but others remember Rudy Ray Moore simply as Dolemite, the tough-talking character he played in the 1975 film of the same name. As a pimp surrounded by a group of kung fu--fighting prostitutes, Dolemite became a blaxploitation icon. Moore, however, found fault with the term, once telling a reporter, "I never heard The Godfather called 'Italian exploitation.'" Unbeknownst to many, Dolemite was first part of Moore's stand-up comedy routine, becoming a ghetto hero long before hitting the big screen. Moore...
...mean guys haven’t been coming close.“[Culbreath is] good,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. “He’s fast, like Princeton seems to have a lot of good speed kids. He’s tough, he’s physical, he sees the field well. He’s arguably running the ball better than anybody in our league right now…we’ve got to do a lot better job defending the run than we did last week.”Even though...