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Call Kim Ssang Su a man of the people. On a chilly night in the picturesque mountains south of Seoul, Kim, CEO of LG Electronics Inc., holds aloft a paper cup filled to the rim with soju, a clear, sweet potato-based Korean alcohol with a vicious bite. Surrounding him are a dozen of the 300 LG suppliers' managers whom Kim has spent the day lecturing and rallying. They have also been hiking up a snow-covered mountainside?necessary training, he says, for the grand plans he has for South Korea's second largest electronics firm...
Call Kim Ssang Su a man of the people. On a chilly night in the picturesque mountains south of Seoul, Kim, CEO of LG Electronics Inc., holds aloft a paper cup filled to the rim with soju, a clear, sweet potato--based Korean alcohol with a vicious bite. Surrounding him are a dozen of the 300 LG suppliers' managers whom Kim has spent the day lecturing and rallying. They have also been hiking up a snow-covered mountainside--necessary training, he says, for the grand plans he has for South Korea's second largest electronics firm...
...that would belie her reputation as a remote and indecisive leader. The campaign was also popular with senior army brass, still smarting at their loss of prestige and power after dictator Suharto's toppling in 1998. But the quick success the generals predicted was not to be. After a vicious initial round of fighting that left hundreds dead, the conflict settled down into a bloody stalemate: the security forces saturated the countryside, hoping to drive G.A.M. out of hiding and into the mountains, and conducted a brutal campaign against the separatists' civilian supporters. According to New York City-based Human...
...spite of all this, the intensity of debate among Harvard students on the very issues, which they are powerless to change, is high as can be. Henry Kissinger reportedly remarked that “university politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.” It is a comment that applies quite well to today’s Harvard, as I am sure it did to Kissinger?...
...different religions but work next to each other, cheer the same football team and even intermarry. But in Nigeria, every few years the divide becomes obvious and stark. Made desperate by poverty and joblessness, and often goaded by manipulative politicians, extremists on both sides go at each other in vicious battles. Plateau state, where cattle herders from the north and farmers from the south vie for control of the fertile plains of Nigeria's middle belt, is "right on the fault line," as one Western diplomat puts it. That fault line ruptured again in February. In the town of Yelwa...