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...conference. American officials were puzzled by the non-answer, but a senior South Korean official was not. "Kim Dae-Jung and President Bush do not need glasses," the official told me. "They both see North Korea clearly, but president Kim leaves his tongue at rest. President Bush has an iron tongue...
...disputes that most of America's old, integrated mills--the ones that make steel from iron ore in huge blast furnaces--are ailing badly. In 1998, amid a financial crisis that dampened Asia's demand for steel, exports from that region flooded the U.S. and drove prices to 20-year lows. Thirty U.S. steelmakers have filed for bankruptcy protection in the past five years, including icons such as LTV and Bethlehem Steel. With a strong dollar still favoring imports and a global recession crimping demand, the U.S. firms staying afloat say their position is precarious. The most efficient and profitable...
...Dutch-Anglo venture Corus and the multinational conglomerate Arcelor, the E.U.'s mills are now among the world's least polluting and most productive. "Should restrictive trade measures be adopted, it still doesn't solve the problems of U.S. integrated producers," says Gordon Moffat of the European Confederation of Iron and Steel Industries...
...visit to the firm's Kwangyang operation shows why it's a global leader. Completed in 1992, the plant is laid out like a big assembly line, with barges transporting raw materials like iron ore in one end and finished steel out the other end. Capacity in the blast furnaces matches capacity in rolling mills down the line, yielding efficiencies. The plant is highly computerized, workers aren't unionized, and POSCO doesn't bear heavy pension costs...
Crafty production companies get around Harvard’s restrictions by filming from Harvard Square, so viewers can see the perimeter of the Yard framed by wrought-iron bars. Sometimes they scurry outside the Ivy League. A popular Harvard lookalike is Wheaton College in Norton, Mass. Both Soul Man, the story of a first-year Harvard Law School student desperate to secure a scholarship for black students, and the yet-to-be-released Prozac Nation were partly filmed there. With Honors was filmed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at the Boston Athenaeum. Legally Blonde, starring Reese...