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Pulikovsky claims Kim encouraged him to write the account of the trip, saying, "There are too many mysteries about me; let the people know the truth." When Albright was in Pyongyang, Kim took her to a packed stadium to witness a mammoth, highly scripted display of support for the regime. "He took great personal pride in having choreographed a lot of it," she recalls. Albright concluded that Kim saw himself as a director of a great drama, someone with a flair if not a weakness for the big show. Certainly that is a trait on display now. --With reporting...
...gone well in Mexico, where it is the country's largest retailer. And the company just completed a deal to crack the Japanese market by acquiring 34% of Seiyu, a well-positioned but struggling retailer. But Wal-Mart has stumbled badly in some countries, particularly Germany. "We could write a training manual about our experiences in Germany," Scott says. "We really did more things wrong than right." There, Wal-Mart faces tough competition from well-established chains, especially among grocers. The German managers Wal-Mart brought on board through two mergers resisted American help. "We've been trying...
...most morally intricate research can proceed is by keeping it away from charlatans. "I knew they would have a very damaging impact on the cloning debate. First, they would just plain scare people," Caplan notes. "The Raelians are not the picture you want in people's minds when they write their Congressman about cloning...
...expansion in Germany has been less than stellar, delaying, perhaps, Wal-Mart's move into the rest of Europe. Wal-Mart reached Europe in 1998 when it bought Germany's Wertkauf. A year later it added Interspar, and then mangled the merger in almost every way possible. "We could write a training manual about our experiences in Germany," Scott says. "We really did more things wrong than right." German consumers love low grocery prices, which would make them the perfect clientele for Wal-Mart, but they, too, experienced culture shock when confronted by Southern hospitality. Germans found Wal-Mart...
...Keefe worked at the Pudding as both actor and composer. After graduation, he continued to help write scripts and arrange music...