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...Prime Minister Helen Clark told New Zealanders last week, though her careful phrasing suggested the benefits might fall short of early hopes: "I am confident that we got the very best deal we could." Dairy and timber exporters are expected to profit most, but manufacturers like white-goods maker Fisher & Paykel and fashion house Icebreaker also stand to gain from easier access to China's low-cost factories as well as to its fast-growing middle class. The projected $300 million annual income boost from the free-trade agreement "is obviously worth having," says Skilling. But "given that our total...
Choreography is a mysterious process. It happens in upstairs rooms and behind closed doors, and the pronouncements of choreographers are often opaque. "You have to put things together like a gefilte fish," said George Balanchine, co-founder of New York City Ballet and the most influential dance maker of the 20th century...
...government started to lay the ground rules for future dialogue with the North. "North Korea is just trying to discipline the new unification minister [of South Korea]," says Professor Moon Jung In, at Yonsei University, referring to Kim Ha Jong, the South's key policy maker on the North. His agenda will presumably be a reflection of Lee's election platform, which took a harder line against Pyongyang than previous South Korean governments...
...asked a former IRA soldier, a bomb maker, if Marion was right. "You can't know for sure," he said. "They wrongly called an end to the conflict in 1962." He agreed that no one was satisfied with the power-sharing agreement that technically gives the province's Catholics as much say in government as the Protestants. And one of the biggest problems for Northern Irish Catholics is unemployment; much of the lost generation only knows how to fight...
...This is the first election in history, that I can remember, where experience, and having experience as a change maker - as a change maker - should be a disability for being elected...