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...companies an overland transport route to the booming mainland. The South has also promised to help rebuild the main highway from Kaesong to Pyongyang. Given that there is already an expressway that runs from Seoul to the DMZ, optimists such as Lee Im Dong of the Kaesong Industrial Council note that this would, in effect, link Seoul to Pyongyang with a modern road in just a few years. South Korea is also interested in rebuilding ports at Rajin in northeast North Korea near China and Russia, and in the southwest at Haeju...
...Enemy Act, which imposes sanctions on North Korean trade. And billions of dollars, not just from South Korea but also from the U.S., Japan and China, will be needed to bring North Korea into the global economy - assuming, that is, that Kim Jong Il wants to join. Skeptics note that Kim has played this game before, feigning cooperation in return for aid, only to revert to belligerence and isolation. But the Bush Administration and experts in Seoul seem to believe things will be different this time. One of the South's foremost North Korea watchers, Koh Yu Hwan of Seoul...
...puzzle. They have to reconcile the notion that they have to be involved in that field in order to make a change.”UBS spokesman Doug Morris also says that this fall’s negative publicity has had minimal effect on recruiting, though he notes that at one of the recruiting events at Harvard this past fall, a student in attendance did ask about UBS’ role in underwriting PetroChina.“We don’t believe that any of this negative publicity has had any significant impact on our recruiting...
...while her colleagues note that her academic training has been an asset in her new job, Faust speculates that the source might be more intrinsic...
...citing the volatility of endowment growth. Harvard’s payout from its endowment has met its 5 percent goal only once in the last decade, in 2003 when investment returns dipped to 12.5 percent, the lowest rate of the past five years. Proponents of a 5 percent mandate note that other tax-exempt institutions—such as private foundations—are already subject to the rule, as originally required by the Tax Reform Act of 1969. In a press release detailing the initiative, Yale President Richard C. Levin said the $307 million budget increase would go toward...