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...Identity Ma believes the time for change has come. Squished into his train seat, the Harvard-educated lawyer outlined to TIME a detailed program that he hopes will broaden Taiwan's relations with China and eventually lead to real peace. He talks of reaching a "comprehensive economic cooperation agreement" with China that would boost trade and investment across the strait. He even broaches the idea of negotiating a peace treaty with Beijing and putting in place "confidence-building measures" to scale back the military buildup on either side of the strait. "We can make cross-strait relations work for both...
...March 2006, Yale’s art collection fell under scrutiny. The Peruvian government sued Yale for the rights to archaeological materials excavated from the Incan ruin Machu Picchu nearly a century ago by explorer and Yale professor Hiram Bingham. In September 2007, the two sides structured an agreement that stipulated that Yale would cede ownership of the artifacts and return many of them to Peru as early as 2009. Yale would, however, be legally permitted to retain certain pieces for 99 years as part of a research collection...
...agreement remains unsigned, in part because many Peruvians aren’t content with the current terms. Late last month, Eliane Karp-Toledo, the former first lady of Peru, wrote a scathing op-ed in The New York Times claiming that despite its request to keep part of the collection for 99 years, Yale lacked "any historical claim to the artifacts...
...agreement reflects a colonial way of thinking not expected from a modern academic institution," she wrote...
...greatest punishments that could have been inflicted on him." Some had speculated that Spitzer, who had been holed up in his Fifth Avenue apartment since his initial apology Monday, was negotiating a deal to avoid prosecution. But U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia denied that was the case. "There is no agreement between this office and Governor Eliot Spitzer, relating to his resignation or any other matter," Garcia, of New York's Southern District, said in a statement. Conviction on Mann Act and "structuring" charges could mean prison time...