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Because of the short question-and-answer period, the issue of Taiwan-China relations was never confronted. Though Vogel did not guarantee that a question on Taiwan would be selected, he did affirm that this was an issue of prime importance. Harvard, and people worldwide watching the broadcast of the speech, did not have the chance to hear what Jiang had to say on one of the most relevant questions involved in China and U.S. relations...
...Bill Gates has even pitched in with a full-page ad in Friday's Washington Post that calls fast-track authority "a vote to affirm the essential strength and vitality of the American economy...
...behemoth--none of that cuts much ice in American minds preoccupied with Tiananmen Square, Tibet and Taiwan, not to mention the Communist Party. That's precisely why China's President Jiang Zemin is so eager to come here. He may have consolidated power internally, but he desperately wants to affirm his nation's legitimacy abroad. So Jiang's aim during his eight-day state visit, the first since China's bloody suppression of the democracy movement in 1989, is nothing less than to change the minds of Americans about what is going on in China and why they should care...
...really important for us to have National Coming Out Day," Campbell said. "It shows freshmen and new students that Harvard is a safe place to be out and a place where we can affirm our sexuality...
...very sad statement for the University as a whole," said BGLSTA co-chair Andre Sulmers. "It's a direct attack. It's implying that our sexuality is something that we can come out of at the same time that we are trying to affirm our sexuality...