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Students who attended a Government 1730, “War and Politics” review session Monday led by teaching fellow Yong W. Ryu said he gave away information about identifications and essay questions that would appear on the exam...
...long run, Lenovo wants to turn its own name into a glamorous brand. But if its image in China is any indication, that'll prove tricky. Li Yong, a 35-year-old technician, spent last Friday shopping for an IBM ThinkPad in Beijing. It will be his third, and probably his last. "IBM's laptops are the most stable in the world. I won't take the risk of buying one with Lenovo technology." Lenovo will soon have to make the rest of the world think otherwise...
...Yong, 54, was one of roughly 15,000 prisoners at Kaechon in the late 1990s, and he is one of the lucky ones. Kim told veteran American human-rights activist David Hawk that he escaped in 1999 by hiding in a coal train that delivered the miners' daily take to a nearby town. He eventually made his way across the border to China, and then to Seoul, where, along with other refugees from the camps, he has been able to tell his story. Constant hunger is a way of life for the prisoners-malnutrition and disease were rampant, well before...
...Pyongyang will likely try to gain the upper hand next year with more brinkmanship, analysts say. "North Korea will deliberately provoke a crisis through a military show of force," predicts Dong Yong Seung, a North Korea watcher at the Samsung Economic Research Institute. The six-party talks between North Korea, the U.S., China, South Korea, Japan and Russia will likely resume, allowing all sides to pretend that the crisis is not a crisis. But there is little optimism the talks will produce results...
...Zhang Yong, a bright, up-and-coming bureaucrat, thought his financial expertise and Ivy League education would prepare him well for the tricky issues he would face in his job as vice director of economic development in Taizhou, one of the fastest-growing cities in one of China's fastest-growing provinces, Zhejiang. Instead, he found himself tackling a problem that seemed more appropriate for a Third World backwater than a Chinese boomtown: a chronic shortage of electricity. Last year, Taizhou's economy grew at an astounding 15%, but all the gleaming new factories pushed electrical consumption...