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“... and expensive, but it took Nvidia to a leading position in the chip industry. In The Nvidia Way, Tae Kim describes Huang’s relentlessness in keeping ahead of the competition. ‘The number one feature of any product is the schedule,’ Huang said, marking a difference between engineering elegance and Nvidia’s emphasis on ...”

“... a delegate to the World Youth Festival), Daniels saw more than many who have spent much longer in Kim II Sung’s narcissistic ‘paradise’. ‘North Korea,’ he observes, ‘was not so much a factory of flattery as a forced labour camp for it.’ It is a society dominated by fear. Daniels encountered one of the many surrealist mini-dramas which ...”

“... electoral appeal. In 1988 the Parliamentary opposition split between the two rival candidates of Kim Young Sam, from the south-east around Pusan, and Kim Dae Jung, from the south-west round Kwangju, allowing Chun’s military colleague Roh Tae Woo, a key conspirator in the coup of ...”

“... but that is what is happening slowly in North Korea. Or as the defector and journalist Ha Tae Keung put it, ‘It’s an invasion of the stomach.’ The conservative South Korean government of Lee Myung Bak formally abandoned the Sunshine Policy in 2010. Two years earlier, it had dropped its other central element, a jointly run holiday resort in the ...”

“... remix of Roald Dahl’s Tales of the Unexpected. In one typical story, Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Kim Basinger and Victoria Principal lounge around, bored, in a mansion in Santa Monica, chatting in Leith vernacular about their unrequited lust for Leith removal men, who have become international sex symbols: A pile of glossy magazines lay on a large black ...”

“... to normalise relations with the North and refrain from threatening it with nuclear weapons). Or Kim Jong Il may have chosen to play a double game, continuing to honour the Agreement while developing a clandestine weapons programme. Kim ascended to supreme power in September 1998, on the 50th anniversary of the founding of ...”