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...What happens now? In the interest of harmony, China and Japan have begun to tone down their disparaging comments. And there are some calls in Japan's ruling coalition to start from scratch with a new memorial. Meanwhile, Koizumi hasn't visited the shrine yet this year?but insists that regardless of whether or not he does, it will be a domestic issue...
...boss of al-Jazeera International, Parsons is creating from scratch an English-language sister channel to the controversial Arabic broadcaster best known in the West for bringing Osama bin Laden to the world's television screens. In early 2006, al-Jazeera's English channel plans to start going head to head with the likes of CNN and the BBC in the battle for consumers of 24-hour news. The channel's budget is a closely guarded secret, as are the identities of the distributors and advertisers it is wooing, but al-Jazeera is clearly aiming high. "We think...
...statement might seem startling to outsiders, but it's the consensus in places like Ilsan. Seoul was keenly aware of the threat from the North's Korean People's Army when the South created the town from scratch in the 1980s. Lying across one of the main invasion routes to Seoul, the area was the scene of frequent skirmishes during the Korean War. Planners carefully spaced Ilsan's new high-rises to slow any onslaught from enemy tanks and troops. In those days, the town's proximity to North Korea made it an unpopular place to live. Today, property prices...
...promise it only gets better from here. Next year you don’t have to start from scratch. You’ll already be “in the groove” at Harvard and everything that you enjoyed and loved from this year will not be instantaneously lost with the onset of summer...
...think Skidmore would cook up an emergency scholarship for my son if my contribution to the family income suddenly dropped to, say, zero? Oh, and there's one more problem. Since my husband is self-employed, we're awkwardly dependent on my company-supplied health insurance. Umm, scratch the ashram...