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...island of prosperity in an ocean of despair," laughs Mark Wrong, a British developer with plans to build Western-style malls in several Russian cities. "But it's not true any more." Last month he broke ground on his first mall, in Yaroslavl, which is about 240 km northeast of Moscow, and over the next two to three years he hopes to have outposts as far as Ufa and Yekaterinburg. Such expansion outside Moscow was unthinkable even a few years ago, but it's a sign of how Russian retailing has evolved over the past decade. Some new retailers...
...kindergartens teach children songs about Korea's glorious eastern islands, the Dokdo. In 2005, almost 20,000 Korean tourists (including one wedding party) visited the islands, even though it's a $350-per-person, five-hour boat trip from the mainland. According to a report by Peter Beck, the Northeast Asia project director for the International Crisis Group, "One would be hard pressed to find a single Korean over the age of five willing to admit that control of Dokdo does not matter." By contrast, says Hideshi Takesada, a professor of Korean politics at Japan's National Institute for Defense...
...Coming to the Northeast its hard to take many months off golf. Both showed they were solid and consistent...
...Harvard chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon can boast of the highest GPA of any SAE chapter in the “province.” The province comprises the 11 SAE chapters in the Northeast area. Harvard SAE has an aggregated GPA of 3.48, beating other Ivy League schools such as Yale and Dartmouth. Dartmouth came in second with an average 3.40 GPA. Yale did not make the top three. The president of Harvard SAE, Nicolas A. Yannuzzi ’07, said he was thrilled to be the leader of the smartest SAE chapter in the region, but stressed...
...White House is concerned, says Richard C. Bush, director of Northeast Asian policy studies at the Brookings Institution (no relation to the President), that on Iran "China will be not a responsible stakeholder but a free-rider, a big country that enjoys the benefits of the international system while letting other great powers do the heavy lifting...