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...numerous best-selling mystery novels about two Navajo policemen, Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, portrayed the American Indians of the Southwest with accuracy, color and affection. Hillerman, who died Oct. 26 at 83, was the first popular author to consistently write about the Navajo as fully rounded characters. Over 18 novels, starting with 1970's The Blessing Way, he portrayed the Navajo with good traits and bad, as heroic and villainous, just as novelists had written about people of other races and cultures. He understood that Navajo are not the primitives depicted in old western movies, and he wanted...
...both hauteur and charisma, she is the paragon of the city's haute bourgeoisie. The city's working people treat her like a queen. And although she served in Hong Kong's first postcolonial administration until 2001, she adroitly kept a distance from its unpopular head, Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa. This, plus her advocacy of speedier democratic reforms in defiance of Beijing, has made her "the conscience of Hong Kong" in many eyes...
...consistent message proved just as elusive. Inconsistency has been the norm ever since 500,000 people took to Hong Kong's streets on July 1, 2003 to protest everything from a controversial security bill to the mishandling of the SARS crisis to Tsang's unpopular predecessor, Tung Chee-hwa. It may have started out as a pro-democracy march, but democracy is not necessarily foremost on the minds of the marchers. If you missed the "One Person, One Vote!" placards carried by democracy advocates (helpfully printed in Sunday's edition of Hong Kong's Apple Daily newspaper), it would have...
...surprised to hear me say this, but I have been pleasantly surprised at how the past decade has unfolded. Overall, China has tried to abide by the Basic Law, Hong Kong's mini-constitution, and despite a turbulent seven years under the inept leadership of former Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, the territory is prospering. That is not to say there aren't concerns. Hong Kong suffers greatly from a lack of full democracy. The press censors itself to avoid angering the powers that be. (For refusing to pull its punches, Apple Daily publishes under a boycott by pro-Beijing...
...political opponents say that Tsang has not yet shown the kind of world-class leadership Hong Kong needs and deserves. A former civil servant, Tsang was Financial Secretary under Britain's last Hong Kong Governor, Chris Patten, and No. 2 in the administration of Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong's first Chief Executive after the 1997 handover to China. Tung-who came from a Shanghainese family rather than from Hong Kong or its neighboring province, Guangdong-was never wildly popular and proved ineffectual, unable to meet the challenges of either a downturn in the economy or of the SARS epidemic...