Word: jangly
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...Pakistan's Media Re Aryn Baker's essay "Casualty of War" [June 1]: My newspaper, the News International, published by the Jang Group of Newspapers, has been accused of publishing rumors reported as facts, which Baker says is an epidemic in Pakistan. I take strong exception to her observation. She herself has misreported facts while referring to the News. She reports that we published an unbylined story. The fact is that we reproduced a bylined story from Fox News written by Rowan Scarborough, who is also a writer of two books. Our 1,090-word story had 657 words...
...compromised, as in the case of Pakistan where the country's former Law Minister Aitzaz Ahsan describes the judiciary as "handcuffed." The rich and powerful are seen as finding their way around the judicial system. "People have an image that there's no equality under the law," says Choi Jang Jip, a political-science professor at Korea University in Seoul, referring to perceptions in South Korea. The stakes are higher in Thailand, where the former ruling People Power Party and two of its partners were banned last month in what critics have called a "judicial coup." Although the judgment...
...shot up 63.3% in the first half of 2007. Hyundai Asan, the South Korean conglomerate that manages the two projects and has invested nearly $1 billion in them, is convinced that North Korea is ready to embrace capitalism. "The North Koreans are really studying the market-oriented system," says Jang Whan Bin, Hyundai Asan's senior vice president of international business and investor relations. Such optimism is essential for South Koreans, for whom investment in the North is less an overture for integration than a hedge against their neighbor's collapse. Better, perhaps, to nudge the D.P.R.K. toward prosperity...
...friends will be alive tomorrow. Although I disagreed with the decision to initiate war in Iraq, I can now imagine the consequences of Bush withdrawing American troops. Thank you for shedding light on the situation in Iraq. More important, thank you for your remarkable insight and brutal honesty. Erika Jang Evanston, Illinois...
...will be alive tomorrow. Although I disagreed with the decision to initiate war in Iraq, I can now imagine the consequences of Bush's withdrawing American troops. Thank you for shedding light on the situation in Iraq. More importantly, thank you for your remarkable insight and brutal honesty. Erika Jang Evanston, Illinois, U.S. I failed to find where Ghosh was "unstinting in his praise and admiration for the courage and integrity of the American servicemen and -women in Iraq," as indicated by managing editor Richard Stengel in his To Our Readers column. In all the gloom, surely there...