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...winner of the March 22 presidential election. Ma's victory is a landmark development that has the potential to not just change Taiwan but transform its fraught relationship with China. For decades after its leadership fled to Taiwan in 1949, the KMT regarded the island merely as a transitional base from which to reclaim the mainland. The KMT, an outsider, ruled Taiwan in an authoritarian manner, and was out of touch with local folk, who identified themselves as Taiwanese, not Chinese. In 2000, the KMT paid for its arrogance when it was stunningly - and deservedly - ousted from office...
...wades through the fin de régime, Fox News will have one important asset: its loyal viewer base. But even for them, it will need to shake up its comfortable Bush-era routine, perhaps by cultivating new hosts, perhaps by taking a page from McCain and branding itself as the channel of maverick authenticity, not of establishment dogma. The viewers are Fox's to keep. It just has to figure out what's going to make them mad starting...
...accidentally go to Tampa [the Yankees spring training home] the first day of spring training? -Edwin Henriquez, New York City[Laughs] I had a ball this year. You go out and find your restaurants. It was a whole new plan for me in Vero Beach (the Dodgers spring base), even though we were there for an abbreviated period of time. I want to tell you, I went back in the Dodger archives to find restaurants. I asked Sandy Koufax and Koufax was my restaurant guide. So he found different restaurants, and as of now he hasn't picked...
...Bowman also has a big Christian fan base. He's been invited to stage the show in various American churches; in Boston, seven Protestant ministers came backstage to congratulate him on its "profoundly Christian message." "A lot of Christians are so resentful that Bush is hijacking the language of Jesus to do these awful things," he says. "I'm fairly sure that telling jokes about God isn't as blasphemous as torturing his children." For an age-of-terror comic like Bowman, the best jokes make for nervous laughter...
...infighting in Basra has forced British forces to stall the planned withdrawal of some 1,500 troops. Some 4,000 British troops have been hunkered down at the Basra airport after turning the city over to Iraqi forces last year. So far they have not been drawn from their base into this week's fighting there...