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...Jenkins' world suddenly began to brighten two years ago. The breakthrough was Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il (the son and successor of Kim Il Sung) in Pyongyang. Kim confirmed Japan's long-held suspicion that North Korea had been kidnapping Japanese citizens and forcing them to teach at its spy schools. Soga, Jenkins' wife, was acknowledged to be among the abductees. After the summit, she and the four others Pyongyang said were still alive returned to Japan for what was meant to be a 10-day visit. They never went back...
...matter who did it, the some students wish that it was permanent. “I have to say, Harvard’s landscaping is horrible,” Fontes says. “If one lonely flower can brighten a few minutes of my day, imagine what a difference it would make if every Harvard student snuck into the Yard to plant flowers at night at some point during the year...
...corporate outlook is beginning to brighten. A worldwide survey of 513 business executives by consultant Ernst & Young recently ranked Germany the third most attractive country in which to invest, behind China and the U.S. Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank reported healthy profits in the first three months of 2004, after heavy losses for the same period last year, a sign that German banks can succeed by cutting excess retail staff and pruning bad debt. Media companies like Axel Springer, publisher of Bild and Die Welt, are bouncing back from a crippling advertising drought. Companies are winning important labor concessions. Siemens...
...surprise move didn't do much to brighten up an already disappointing summit for Bush. He came to Istanbul with virtually no hope of securing more troops to help pacify the Iraqi terror movement-something the U.S. desperately needs. What he has instead is a commitment from NATO to help train Iraqis forces. That's not a bad thing but training is slow and even the terms of the training-will it be done in Iraq or in Europe? who will do what?-remains to be seen. What's crystal clear is that this is still an American fight...
JONATHAN SCHWARTZ Software Smarty Sun Microsystems is a company in deep shadow. The network computer maker has seen sales drop for 12 straight quarters and recently announced 3,300 layoffs. Trying to brighten that darkness is the ponytailed Schwartz, 38, the firm's new COO. He most recently ran Sun's software division, where he headed new strategies for deploying Sun's Java platform. One ongoing initiative: a push into markets such as China and India, where Microsoft doesn't have a stranglehold and Sun can more easily sell its systems for desktops and devices...