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...seem odd that at this crucial time LG has turned over its top job to a farm boy from a tiny village in eastern South Korea. Kim Ssang Su spent his childhood knee-deep in the family's rice paddies. Even now, Kim is a bit of a fish out of water. He took over from the debonair John Koo, a senior member of LG's prestigious founding family. 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...
...know what that debased and delusional policy yielded: the bloodiest bout of Palestinian-Israeli violence in history. With the region knee-deep in body parts, the Bush Administration ordered a halt to the insanity. On June 24, 2002, Bush pledged himself to a Palestinian state but told the Palestinians that they will get nothing until they give up this war, crack down on terrorism, democratize their institutions and, most important, strip Arafat of power...
...Mingwu is knee-deep in Nirvana. He is buried in Bjork, awash in Aerosmith and mired in Moby. Li (not his real name) supplies cut-rate music CDs to storefront retailers in his home city of Guangzhou in southern China and is on one of his periodic buying trips to Shantou, a port city in Guangdong province. Here, inside a cluster of brick warehouses at the end of a dirt lane, hundreds of thousands of discs by foreign artists, both major and minor, are piled in cardboard boxes and wicker baskets stacked several meters high. Li wades through...
...effectively borrows the jerky, chaotic camera techniques that Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (which Hanks starred in) used to mimic the soldiers' confused, terrified perspective. It is based closely on historian Stephen Ambrose's book about Easy Company, an elite paratroop unit that had the dubious luck to land knee-deep in key moments of the war in Europe, from D-day to the Battle of the Bulge to the capture of Hitler's mountain fortress. And it has gone through the same, now obligatory seal-of-approval process as Ryan: screenings for real live veterans who emerged...
...regulations?and rewards?expired 150 years ago with the end of the Tokugawa shogunate. These days commoners of any gender can stroll along the old road, parts of which have become quiet backstreets, while other sections remain mountain track. Despite trail markers and helpful shouts from farmers knee-deep in paddies, it is still easy to get lost. Our group of five took a 12-day journey with Walk Japan, whose guides are well-versed in the route's history and the concerns of traditional inn owners, who are often nervous about foreigners not knowing how to behave. For information...