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...down. The PC market is so bad that Dell is getting into routers. And in an example that, yes, this column was watching with particular interest, AOL Time Warner beat earnings expectations but was deemed to have done it all through cost-cutting and accounting magic, and so was beaten by traders like a mule that was not only rented but over-dependent on the moribund ad market...
...least 46 protestors and 31 police officers have been hurt in the conflict, in addition to the young man, whose cause of death was not yet clear. Some witnesses said he was shot in the head, others claimed he was beaten to death by police. One photograph shows his legs beneath a police truck...
...seizing power in 1961, dictator Park Chung Hee banned news stories critical of his government and stationed intelligence agents in newsrooms. His successor Chun Doo Hwan forced media outlets to fire journalists he didn't like. Speaking out against the government in those days could get you arrested or beaten up. Today, censorship and physical intimidation are verboten, but heavy-handed habits die hard. The presidential Blue House still pressures editors to change copy, sometimes successfully. Says Kim Young Bae, who has just finished a stint as editorial page chief at the JoongAng Daily: "Any time we write anything critical...
...Microsoft's great news that it had beaten revenue expectations for the quarter was tempered by the fact that it would also record $2.6 billion in investment losses, bringing their 42-cents-a-share earnings back down to 1 cent per share. The stock popped $4, or 6 percent, in Thursday-morning trading...
...unemployed 23-year-old, fled to Russia in 1999, but despite receiving refugee status from the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, he was returned to North Korea with assurances that nothing would happen to him. Nothing, it turns out, but excruciating torture. Park says he was held captive, beaten with iron chains and forced to lick the toilet hole in his cell. In April, with help from a Japan-based human-rights group, Park escaped to Southeast Asia, where he is hiding in a secret location. But he could soon be testifying before U.S. lawmakers eager for evidence of North...