Word: entrepreneur
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...docility that’s an able contrast to Barry’s bouts of high emotion. Nearly as good in tiny roles are Anderson veterans Luis Guzman as Barry’s eternally arch-faced co-worker and the ever-sublime Philip Seymour Hoffman as a crass Utah entrepreneur...
...Given Yang's newfound notoriety, he fits the bill. North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il selected the 39-year-old entrepreneur to spearhead an experiment in social and economic engineering in the town of Sinuiju on the border with China. Yang was to be Chief Executive of a free-trade zone with its own laws and elections. The project is meant to lure industry to the destitute communist country, helping it join the modern world and possibly get off U.S. President George W. Bush's hit list. China's close ties to North Korea make Yang's predicament...
...Prince of Canto-pop. This year he won a World Music Award as China's top-selling artist. And a poll of 1,343 Mainland students found him to be the fourth highest-ranking "idol," after Zhou Enlai, Mao Zedong and Bill Gates. (Hmmm: diplomat, oarsman, entrepreneur, rock star; prc kids have a nice sense of variety...
...legal code enforced by imported European judges, not Kim's fiats, will regulate the community. Most of the drab, dilapidated buildings that line Sinuiju's quiet streets will be flattened, modern offices and factories built in their place. Pyongyang has even appointed a non-Korean?39-year-old Chinese entrepreneur Yang Bin, reportedly the second-richest man in China?to govern the new zone. Li, after being told that his role in the grand experiment involves packing his things and leaving, says impassively: "We must obey the higher authority of the country...
...Omen A U.S. entrepreneur plans this fall to begin selling to individuals their personal genetic codes on a CD. The information will be nearly useless, critics say, since so much about gene function remains unknown...