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...post-election riots in the streets of Taipei subside, the Taiwanese are looking around and noticing one remarkable thing: life goes on. Concerns that China would make good on its promise to attack the island if Democratic Progressive Party candidate Chen Shui-bian won the presidential election Saturday have been allayed - for now. And so Beijing and Taipei have locked in a holding pattern: Chen maintains that his country is sovereign, while Chinese President Jiang Zemin holds (as does the U.S.) that Taiwan is a subset of China. As if to confirm that state of affairs, Chen, speaking...
Beijing's saber-rattling across the Taiwan Strait may well signify a coming conflict with Washington, but not necessarily over Taiwan. Beijing's threats to invade if Taiwan's presidential election on Saturday is won by Chen Shui-bian, who previously advocated a referendum on independence, have seen the Taipei stock exchange shed some 12 percent of its value in less than a week, and drawn a warning on Thursday from Defense Secretary William Cohen to tone down the rhetoric. Washington fears the threats from both sides could develop a momentum of their own, provoking a military showdown that would...
...darling of the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) Party, ousted populist Chen Shiu-Bian of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in elections last December, as Taipei's voters showed they were in no mood to keep pushing for total independence from the mainland's communist government...
...something to gossip about. In a series of TV interviews last fall, previously scheduled to promote a new CD but suddenly subjected to intense scrutiny because of the coming-out rumors, DeGeneres joked awkwardly that she was Lebanese, or that the real news was that a character named Les Bian would be joining Ellen's cast. She even kidded her own teasing reticence on an episode of The Larry Sanders Show that had her hopping into bed for man-woman sex with the fictional male talk-show host...
Earlier this year the Les-bian Avengers, a radical les-bian group which staged a fire-eating demonstration in downtown Boston, held planning meetings at Dudley...