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...expand Charles de Gaulle. The new 2E terminal - and a nearby S3 complex set to open in March 2007 - were designed to bring flocks of new passengers to Paris by offering sleek, interconnecting structures catering to the expanding business plans of Air France and partners including Delta and Korean Air. "Air France is getting more and more successful, with bigger and more significant alliances," says David Learmount, operations and safety editor of Flight International magazine. "It has the capacity to expand - but not if its terminals fall down. This is going to seriously curtail the rate at which Air France...
...Woman Is the Future of Man? - but let?s hope this stupefying Korean drama is not the future of cinema...
...Three other awards went to Asian artists. The Grand Jury Prize (second place) was given to Park Chan-wook, director of the vigorous, violent Korean melodrama ?Old Boy.? This was precisely the sort of genre film the Festival has previously eschewed, and which Tarantino has championed. In announcing the prize, he said with a big smile, ?The Jury is DELIGHTED to award....? Yuya Yagira, the 14-year-old star of Hirokazu Kore-eda?s poignant Japanese drama ?Nobody Knows,? won the Best Actor prize. Best Actress went to Hong Kong?s Maggie Cheung for her role as a drug addict...
...Other Asian countries are exposed, too. In South Korea, fully 36% of export growth in 2003 is traceable to sales into China. Given the postbubble travails of Korean consumers, a deterioration in a key source of external growth could have a major impact domestically. Dramatic effects can also be expected in Taiwan and Hong Kong?economies that have become appendages of the mainland's production platform. A slowdown in China puts all that at risk. Meanwhile, in America, the drumbeat grows louder for a shift in U.S. monetary policy, presaging higher borrowing costs. With the American economy surging...
...According to the U.S., Jenkins defected to North Korea as a 24-year-old U.S. Army sergeant in 1965 while he was on patrol near the Korean Demilitarized Zone, and Washington wants to court-martial him. (His relatives in the U.S. maintain that he was abducted and then brainwashed by North Korea.) If Jenkins leaves North Korea, however, the Japanese would prefer that he stay in Japan for the sake of his family. Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi recently conferred with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell on the Jenkins case; Koizumi also talked to President George W. Bush...