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Also topping his boss’ compensation, Richard H.K. Vietor, senior associate dean at Harvard Business School, took in $454,966, which beat out Dean Kim B. Clark ’74, whose salary was not listed among Harvard’s top five...
...reasonable person would wager that the last place Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi would ever want to revisit would be North Korea. The first time he went, in September 2002, Koizumi intended to show his skill and stature as an international statesman. That backfired spectacularly when Kim Jong Il confessed unrepentantly that North Korea had kidnapped 13 Japanese citizens in the 1970s and '80s?and had no intention of allowing the five survivors to return home. The Japanese public was outraged, the fate of the kidnap victims became Koizumi's biggest headache, and the issue cramped Japan's ability...
...Trusting Kim to play nice tends to be a sucker's bet. But Koizumi is willing to take the gamble, perhaps because his administration is being buffeted by an ever-widening scandal at home. Seven government ministers have admitted to skipping their payments into the national pension scheme, and last week Koizumi himself said he had, at times, failed to make payments before they became mandatory in 1986. A triumph in Pyongyang would be a welcome distraction. The automatic winner in the deal is Kim, who appears to have Japan's leader at his beck and call. But if Koizumi...
...closest allies in the party are already launching a counterattack. Two weeks after the election, influential solon Kim Bu Gyeom sat down with a group of party firebrands to tell them Roh can't waste time on ideological infighting when the real priority should be reviving the drooping economy. Still, Seoul hasn't confirmed that it will meet the June deadline for dispatching troops, and a spokesman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff said last Friday: "We don't know when they're going." In his weekend speech, Roh promised to hit the ground running...
...Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of retail bakeries is expected to grow 16% and baking manufacturing 12%. Says the CIA's Ryan: "I'd match our employment rate against any Ivy League school. When they graduate, our students typically juggle seven or eight job offers." According to Kim Resnik, director of marketing for the Atlanta Art Institute, which has a culinary-arts program, her school placed 100% of its culinary students in jobs immediately upon graduation in 2002 (the last year for which the institute has totals) and the average starting salary...