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...women and female children sported the austere, Khmer Rouge bobbed haircuts. One of the men still wore revolution-style footwear-better known as "Ho Chi Minh sandals"-handmade from rubber car tires. When Lao authorities caught the group-which had now grown to 34 men, women, children and infants-crossing the border from Cambodia, they were clad in clothes fashioned from tree bark...
...Nicholas, Antonio L. Perez, Shira R. A. Pinnas, Alexander J. Post, Karl C. Procaccini, Krishna A. Rao, Michael B. Schnall-Levin, Julia A. Stephens, Aditya V. Sunderam, Manik V. Suri, Vaughn Y. H. Tan, Nadim N. Vasanji, Ajit Vyas, Daniel B. Weissman, R. Christian Wyatt, Yan Xuan, Wen-Chi A. Yuan, Minhua Zhang and Brian F. Zingale...
...panel prices drop, so will margins, potentially forcing some weaker players out of the business. There are already signs of a shake-out. In September, Taiwan's Chi Mei Optoelectronics halted construction on a panel factory. Japan's Mitsubishi Electric said it will phase out production of large LCD panels altogether, filling its TV sets with panels made by other companies. Even market leader LG.Philips LCD, a joint venture between Korea's LG Electronics and the Netherlands' Royal Philips Electronics, reported a 15% drop in net profit in the third quarter due to a decline in panel prices. Competition will...
...Fourteen skating officials resigned over the controversy last week, including two coaches and six vice presidents of the Korea Skating Union, which oversees the national team. The coaches could not be reached for comment, but Lee Chi Sang, one of the vice presidents who resigned, calls the allegations "exaggerated" and insists coaches have the right to get rough. "To train the athletes to accomplish more, the coaches had no choice," says Lee. "It was not beating, it was not violence, it was punishment." It remains to be seen if the union will get a taste of its own medicine...
Later that year, angry Pi Eta alumni—including then-Massachusetts State Treasurer Joseph D. Malone ’78—stepped in, closing the club down but maintaining ownership of the building until 1996, when Sigma Chi became a co-owner...