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...farm boy from a tiny village in eastern South Korea. Kim Ssang Su spent his childhood knee-deep in the family's rice paddies. Kim has never worked outside Korea or, before becoming ceo, even at LG's glitzy Seoul headquarters, known locally as the Twin Towers. He had spent his entire career buried in LG's stuffy bureaucracy at the company's main appliance factory in the industrial city of Changwon. He admits to being more comfortable in the field visiting factory floors and design centers than in his spacious office overlooking Seoul's Han River. It would...
...catarro [a cold] and cacharro [a cooking utensil], sound much the same, as do nada [nothing] and lana [wool]. Context tells you which." To test whether this is all lana over the visitor's eyes, Darias is asked to bring in some of his students. Antonio Ramos, Ivan Conrado, twins Paula and Mirta Rodriguez, Maria Garcia and Raico Sanchez do him proud. Maria whistles Antonio's name. He makes a sound that Darias spells out as fuio, which in Silbo means "What do you want?" She asks him the time. Antonio blasts back that it's 11:30 a.m. Paula...
...DEDICATED. The CORNERSTONE OF THE FREEDOM TOWER, which, at 540 m, will be the tallest building in the world when completed in 2008; at the former site of the World Trade Center in New York City. Nearly three years after a terror attack leveled the Twin Towers, New York officials gathered at a ceremony at ground zero as the 20-ton granite block was lowered into place. Its inscription reads: "To honor and remember those who lost their lives on September 11, 2001 and as a tribute to the enduring spirit of freedom...
...Stern's case) at a time when most people on radio and TV seem phony, impersonal, dull, dissembling, hedging. Both are irreverent, acute, bombastic, iconoclastic, outlandishly populist rabble-rousers who make millions of dollars a year. They are national ids, gleeful and unfettered. Howard is Rush's evil twin, Goofus to his Gallant...
AILING. MARY-KATE OLSEN, 18, former child star who, with her fraternal twin sister Ashley, helms a billion-dollar entertainment and fashion empire; from an eating disorder. The once healthy 5-ft. 2-in. tween queen has recently become startlingly frail, and was admitted to an undisclosed treatment facility...