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Question: What do 3,614 journalists do in a picturesque Swiss city when a couple of bigwig visitors declare a news blackout? Answer: They pester government spokesmen about whether Ronald Reagan was secretly recording his talks with Mikhail Gorbachev (no) and how Nancy Reagan coped with the cold (long underwear). In this summit of images, the quintessential picture of the press may have been the pack that gathered around the President as he walked into a reception held by the Swiss government. "Have you agreed on anything?" they shouted. "Can't say," Reagan replied puckishly, throwing up his hands...
...coverage?because it emphasized that Taiwan was not united behind Lien's visit. "He is cooperating with the Communists to downgrade the President's legitimacy and power," she said. And Lien is not the only controversial pilgrim: next week, Hu will welcome to Beijing James Soong, a former KMT bigwig who broke away in 1999 and nowadays is head of the People First Party, the island's third largest...
...Tsang's good friend Sammo Hung, then a stuntman at the Shaw Brothers Studio and now the action choreographer for Stephen Chow's anticipated Kung Fu Hustle, who suggested in 1974 that the little man try his hand as a stuntman. (The path from stuntman to industry bigwig is well-trodden in Hong Kong. Along with Hung, both Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan are among the actors who started by taking a few falls.) Tsang, whose father, Tsang Kai-wing, had been a professional footballer in Hong Kong, had himself played for Hong Kong's team at the Asian Youth...
...newly hopeful Kashmir, there will now be a chief minister who does not belong to the Abdullah clan. Among the prime candidates is Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, a former Congress Party bigwig who formed his own People's Democratic Party in 1999. His daughter Mehbooba, 42, made the party a force by tirelessly campaigning for the victims of Kashmir's violence and?insisting that the decades-long impasse can't continue. "We don't have anAladdin's lamp," she told Time, "but we will provide a healing touch." Her fervor registered with Kashmir's voters, as even Omar Abdullah admits...
According to the Times and Globe reports, another department bigwig, Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah, is also being courted by Princeton University...