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...still influential predecessor, Jiang Zemin, must balance the country's powerful military and security ministries against the Foreign Ministry, which has been brainstorming to find ways to increase pressure on North Korea. The diplomats' hands were strengthened when the North walked away from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty last January, broke into a stash of plutonium that had been secured by the U.N. and ousted inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency. To force Pyongyang to the table, Beijing last March cut off North Korea's energy lifeline--an oil pipeline from northeastern China--for three days...
...general, a good guy. The son of journeyman NBA forward Joe (Jellybean) Bryant, Kobe speaks fluent Italian from having lived in Italy for the eight years when Joe played pro ball there. At suburban Philadelphia's Lower Merion High, where he led his team to the state championship and broke the region's all-time high school scoring record once held by Wilt Chamberlain, Kobe had good grades and SAT scores. "He never really talked to women," says Emory Dabney, 22, a high school teammate who stayed friendly with the star after Bryant turned pro. "He concentrated on basketball...
...certain prices are heading south? Sell, says Evensky. That is, if you think you'd be unloading in a panic later. A far better scenario is to find an allocation you can live with and stop trying to read the market. "The world won't go broke," he says. "And if you have a diversified portfolio, you won't go broke. Let the talking heads worry about it." --With reporting by Cybele Weisser...
...Berlin court handed down the most authoritative ruling to date, awarding all the property to the Claims Conference, saying that it, rather than Karstadt, represented the former Wertheim owners. That decision prompted appeals by both Karstadt and the government; three rounds of settlement negotiations last fall broke down and have yet to resume...
...although not for another couple of years at the earliest. The federal judge in the New Jersey case is expected to rule much sooner, probably in early fall, whether to admit Principe's suit. And it's possible that the government will try to restart the settlement talks that broke down last year. In the meantime, on the spot in Leipziger Platz where Berliners once flocked to buy their hats, silverware and sausage, the weeds continue to grow...