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...Respect for Taiwan "To The Brink and Back" [May 31], about Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian's inaugural address, was informative and insightful, but it consistently referred to Taiwan as an "island" rather than a country. Although there may continue to be bickering about Taiwan's international status, there is no reason to always refer to it as a mere island. Taiwan is a country, an island-state and a full-fledged nation. Dan Bloom Chiayi City, Taiwan...
True to form, Harvard trailed that game, 2-0, after one period. This win—like the season itself—was a real back-from-the-brink job. Anything else would’ve been wildly out of character. And in the end, they wouldn’t have had it any other...
Despite the media scrutiny surrounding Illinois and the peanut-gallery curiosity directed at Harvard, the Crimson still managed to push the best team in the nation to the brink...
...commercial television and intercollegiate football intersected in the immediate aftermath of World War II, the distinction between the two rapidly blurred, resulting in a fissure in the membership of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) which left the loosely-affiliated Ivy Group on the brink of withdrawing from the national body in favor of a small, self-contained conference...
...speech, he dropped a controversial plan to write a new constitution that was to be endorsed by a referendum-a step Washington feared could be perceived by Beijing as tantamount to a declaration of independence, and which could push the two sides of the Taiwan Strait to the brink of war. Asked by a TIME reporter what he thought of Chen's address, Paal smiled and said: "I am happy with what I heard today...