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...factory in Qingdao in northeast China to combat intensifying competition from Chinese garmentmakers, but that move wasn't enough to keep his profit margins from eroding. In 2005, he grabbed for an economic lifeline: he became one of the first investors in the Kaesong Industrial Complex, a special economic zone in North Korea that lies just across the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), 50 km north of Seoul. Kaesong is a symbol of South Korea's so-called "Sunshine Policy,'' the effort of the country's past two Presidents to draw the North and South closer through greater economic ties...
...pick us apart,” said Crimson coach Ted Donato ’91. “I thought our penalty kill was exceptional and gave us a chance to get a point tonight.” Even though Quinnipiac managed to exert some pressure in the offensive zone, Harvard kept up its forecheck in the neutral zone and forced the Bobcats into the corners and behind the net when they could penetrate the Crimson’s zone. Against Princeton (8-8-0, 6-4-0), Richter played a more pivotal role in preventing Harvard?...
Today Baghdad looks as you imagine it: a war zone direct from central casting. The detritus of car bombs and truck bombs, suicide bombers and firefights would be ample documentation of urban decimation if it only were safe for photographers to walk around and work on the streets...
...Green Zone, that weird gated community divided and subdivided into ever more impregnable subsections, has ever more checkpoints. I counted about seven on my way to the press center; there used to be only two. Everything is permissions and clearances; passes and badges of various colors and sizes. And what is clear is that the closer and higher you are to the U.S. military the easier you move, the smoother you glide through to the beast's belly: the U.S. embassy. It is the tackiest, strangest circus attraction this side of Vegas. A Starbucks-like coffee shop with baristas from...
...last time I was in the Green Zone I heard the American spokesman, Dan Senor, articulate the goal of America's mission in Iraq. It was to establish "a free and democratic Iraq, at peace with itself and its neighbors." He said it with such iambic verve and confidence it could have been the subtitle of a best-seller on Iraqi history - in a parallel dimension...