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...chin-pulling do-gooders (in addition to the disingenuous partisans) lament the injecting of fear into the campaign. The candidates, they insist, should instead be pointing to the sunny uplands of the American dream and showing how their seven-point program will get us there...
...chin-pulling do-gooders (in addition to the disingenuous partisans) lament the injecting of fear into the campaign. The candidates, they insist, should instead be pointing to the sunny uplands of the American dream and showing how their seven-point program will get us there...
...have been handed over. But few expect the grace period will do more than convince a few civilians to come forward?Taiwan's gangsters won't be participating. "Most gang members say there are only two things that matter in the Taiwan underworld: money and firepower," says Ko-lin Chin, a Rutgers University professor who has written extensively about Taiwan's organized crime. "They won't hand over what they need for their survival." True enough. When police in southern Taiwan closed in on fugitive Chang Hsi-ming and three members of his kidnapping ring last week, they were attacked...
...supervisor, which means he earns a $317 monthly salary and has received emergency-medical training from the government, which he then passes on to junior workers. Helpmate Jitchana volunteers for Por Tek Tung because he was in a motorcycle accident himself: he has a scar from it on his chin. "Someone helped me when I was hurt," he says, "so I'm helping others...
...corner across from the Mediterranean Sea and yelling “Gemayaze?” to drivers through open windows. The jaded, tired driver will nod his head almost imperceptibly to his left if he can take me or will make the very Lebanese gesture of raising his chin and eyebrows while making a clicking sound with his tongue. In this context the gesture means, “You want me to go where? Funny. That’s a good one.” A lot of times the drivers will put up two fingers in response...