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Whether Yale will extend the fight to the courts remains unclear...
...With China as a role model, North Korea is adopting other market-oriented reforms. The government intends to stop subsidizing most companies, a crucial step toward less fettered enterprise, though the timetable is unclear. In July, central planners also instituted a new price control regime meant to spur North Koreans to be more productive. Wages jumped as much as 20-fold, while prices for electricity, housing and rice were sharply increased from levels that were so low, the services were virtually given away. Companies are also starting to introduce bonuses for the best workers. Kim Sung Gi, a staff member...
...Whether change will be deep or lasting remains unclear. The countryside of North Korea is a veneer of pastoral isolation masking severe poverty and privation. Small hamlets of white-washed cottages nestle between rice paddies and corn fields, where teams of farmers still work with hoes and sickles. Hardly a tractor can be found, though truckloads of soldiers ramble down the narrow roads. At the Grand People's Study House in Sinuiju, students stare at computers equipped with Microsoft Internet Explorer, but with no connection to the Web, they listlessly surf the library's own site. At one dimly...
...administrators said the role students and other faculty will play the final decision is unclear...
...spring,” he said, “I kept running into people who were very well placed in college admissions who hadn’t heard about it or were unclear that it was being implemented for this year...