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...elections for the Chief Executive and the Legislative Council are Hong Kong's eventual goal. But the document does not specify a road map or timetable toward it. While China's leaders are committed to the Basic Law, they seem in no hurry to embrace direct elections. "They're anxious about moving too fast," says Anson Chan. "They're worried that there will be implications for stability; that Hong Kong will become a welfare state; that the wrong people will get elected." Most of Hong Kong's top business leaders have traditionally been lukewarm toward full democracy, too, fearing that...
...when prescribed a high-calorie diet. Her doctors, convinced that she was lying about her food intake, suspected anorexia or bulimia, but her problem, diagnosed after years of ill health, turned out to be celiac disease--an allergy to wheat. Had the patient been male or older or less anxious, the doctors might have got it right in the first place...
...adrift as it is, the right understandably feels anxious as it contemplates who will carry Reagan's mantle into November 2008. "We're in the political equivalent of a world without the law of gravity," says Republican strategist Ralph Reed. "Nothing we have known in the past seems relevant." At the top of the Republican field in the latest TIME poll is the pro-choice, pro-gay-rights former mayor of liberal New York City. Giuliani's lead is as much as 19 points over onetime front runner McCain. But neither Republican manages better than a statistical...
...right around the corner, we wanted to make sure the laptops didn’t drown,” Aktipis said. As news of the burst pipe spread, e-mails bemoaning the “shitwater” inundating I entryway started flooding Cabot’s open list. Anxious students were quickly calmed by e-mails from Fure and Cabot House Master Jay M. Harris, who informed students that the water was, in fact, from a broken sprinkler pipe. Harris, who is also the Wolfson professor of Jewish studies, said last night that Harvard would reimburse students...
Perhaps it is no surprise that the French would long for Piaf's groundedness at a time when their country feels its own ground shifting. Her humble authenticity amounts to a kind of safe haven from the obliterating force of a louder and crasser world culture. No wonder anxious French citizens are flocking into the outstretched arms of Paris' favorite daughter...