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...Yang insists that won't happen. His zone will succeed where others haven't, he declares, because it isn't North Korea. "There is no economic relationship between North Korea and the new region," he says. As chief executive, he is responsible for appointing a 15-member council?half of them non-Koreans?to draw up the new regulations for the zone. After two or three years, the council will supposedly be elected by the zone's residents. In a sign of just how desperate North Korea is for this venture to work, the central government has also agreed...
...This experiment has to succeed. I don't think the North Korean people can afford a failure." YANG BIN, chief executive of North Korea's new free-trade zone, on the country's efforts to rejoin the global community...
...built in the 4th century B.C. and used in the 1896 Games. The marathon race will retrace the route of the very first marathon man, who sped with news of victory from the battle at Marathon to Athens in 490 B.C. Toss in Greek charm and an eagerness to succeed, and the Greeks may have the formula for a happy and successful Games. With a population of 10.9 million, Greece is the smallest country to stage the Summer Games since Finland in 1952, when the Olympics were a considerably more modest affair. "We are determined to prove that Greece...
...public service, we’re dealing with a limited number of volunteers and scarce resources. I try to get [students] to consider looking at other groups that do similar things, but rarely does this succeed,” Kidd says...
...lawyers said age and illness had left the 92-year-old "bedridden" and decrepit, but Papon exited prison without assistance and grinned as he climbed into a waiting car. Denunciations of the ruling were immediate, and the Justice Ministry has promised an appeal - though it's unlikely to succeed since the ruling is in line with the new law. Not only does Papon's release raise questions about France's willingness to confront accusations of recurrent anti-Semitism, it also suggests inequity in the justice system. Klaus Barbie, Germany's wartime head of the SS in Lyon, and pro-Nazi...