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“I wanted to get the story, and he needed someone to talk to so he could sound professorial and smart,” Nicholson said, describing their relationship.

“Friendship is not the right word, because I was helping the FBI”’ try to catch him, Nicholson said. “I liked him, but I also knew he was a murderer. So it’s weird. It’s a weird dynamic.”

We're all in trouble when we can't tell the good guys from the bad.

But tell that to the photographers that surround the entrance to the hotel.

And tell it to the crowd of onlookers who want a glimpse.

And tell it to the police who try in vain to clear a path.

For the bad guy.

Who at precisely 9:07 p.m. is escorted out of the revolving glass doors of the hotel to an explosion of flashbulbs.

The lingering effect of which produces a bright ball of light in the center of his gaze.

Making it impossible to see the faces of the surging crowd.

As a cop shoves a photographer. And someone screams. And a woman faints.

Last month, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol called the global semiconductor competition “a national all-out war.” As the home country of the world’s two largest chips manufacturers, Samsung and SK Hynix, South Korea is a global semiconductor leader in all respects.

Having fallen behind after one of its best talents “defected” to a competitor, TSMC entered a crisis period that led to its famous “Nightingale Program” – a three-shift, 24-hour non-stop R&D operation; the “Nightingale” refers to the engineers and researchers who worked the “graveyard shift.”

(Lest you think that $1 million sum is a ridiculous amount, it is routine for PhD graduates from top schools studying any area of computer science to get million-dollar-plus pay packages from Big Tech.)

At one point, the first cellist shook his left hand in what appeared to be confusion. It seemed that one of his strings broke and it hurt his palm or one of his fingers, or perhaps something else went haywire. He promptly traded his cello with that of the cellist seated to his right. Then that guy carried — while the orchestra was still playing — the first cellist’s cello up to the third row of cellists, where he exchanged it with another cellist, a woman. She then carried the first cellist’s cello offstage.