Word: opening
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...component of his character: It was the first time we had seen his "back-alley" side, as a fighter. And that's a quality he's called on repeatedly in the past year. After that loss, Federer got off the canvas. He pushed Nadal again in a great Australian Open final this year. He won the French Open. And while [last year's] Wimbledon final may prove to be the high point of the rivalry with Nadal, the rivalry didn't die that day. Even at this year's Wimbledon [at which Nadal isn't playing because of an injury...
...Swiss tennis star Roger Federer, 27, earned his first French Open title on June 7. A straight-sets victory over Sweden's Robin Soderling made Federer the sixth man in history to win all four Grand Slam tournaments...
...channeled into science and technology programs at Kim Il Sung University and Kim Chaek University, which some have dubbed the MIT of North Korea. Although currently stalled because of troubled bilateral relations with South Korea, another technical university, Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), is scheduled to open soon; foreign professors are supposed to eventually teach there, in English...
...says Frederick Carriere, executive director of the New York-based Korea Society, who plays a pivotal role in bilateral programs with both halves of the Korean peninsula. This includes helping to broker a seven-year-long academic exchange between Syracuse University and Kim Chaek, which recently was able to open the country's first digital library, using open-source software...
...like to see more incentives for the DPRK to participate in this kind of standards-based [open-source] work, because through that participation, you get investment in the world of the sort that presumably reduces the likelihood of certain types of conflict," argues Stuart Thorson, an IT and governance expert at Syracuse who oversees the program with Kim Chaek, which he says has been hampered by ineffectual U.S. export controls. (View suspected doctored pictures of Kim Jong...