Word: jung
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...already be too late for that. "The atrocious way they died was bad enough," says Kim Hae Jung, a 43-year-old real estate agent who lost her brother-in-law. "But after they died, they were treated with less regard than animals. They were thrown in the trash." With 285 people still missing, the death toll could rise further. But fires inside the carriages reached 1,000?C, making even DNA identification impossible in some cases. For families still waiting for news, hope is quickly turning into anger...
...vague accompanists to the rituals of getting born, marrying and dying), France trusts the Michelin to discover The Truth," wrote Rudolph Chelminski, who has documented Loiseau's ascent. In 1966, Alain Zick shot himself in the head after his Paris restaurant lost a Michelin star. When Strasbourg chef Emile Jung lost a star last year, he said: "No words can ease the pain that eats at our hearts and that has killed our spirit." And it was no secret that Loiseau was obsessed with the star game. Since winning his second star in 1981, he had shamelessly crusaded...
...United States "These are all process issues. These are all tricks that are being played on us." COLIN POWELL, U.S. Secretary of State, dismisses a third progress report on Iraq by U.N. weapons inspectors "As a person, I feel miserable and my heart is aching." KIM DAE-JUNG, South Korean President, apologizes for the Hyundai scandal, in which loans to the company were secretly funnelled to North Korea "India desires to dominate the region. It is a desire that will never be fulfilled." SHEIKH RASHID AHMED, Pakistani Information Minister, lashes out following India's third missile test in recent months...
...More startling, perhaps, a government watchdog's report last Thursday indicated that the landmark summit between Kim Jong Il and South Korean President Kim Dae Jung may have been bought and paid for by Seoul. President Kim's crowning achievement?his 2000 Nobel Peace Prize?may thus be tainted by charges of checkbook diplomacy. After a three-month investigation, the Board of Audit and Inspection of Korea declared that, just a week before the summit, $332 million was transferred from the state-run Korea Development Bank into Hyundai Merchant Marine, a subsidiary of the Hyundai conglomerate, which has connections...
...first English-language novel, Lili, in 1998, it took me three years to find an American publisher. During that time, agents and publishers suggested that I publish Lili as a biography or memoir instead of as fiction. The commercial success of Nien Cheng's Life and Death in Shanghai, Jung Chang's Wild Swans and Adeline Yeh Mah's Falling Leaves had proved that memoirs about China sell. When I refused to change categories, I was turned down. But when Ha Jin's novel Waiting became a best-seller in the U.S., my luck changed. In fact, Pantheon Books...