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...CHOSEN. DONALD TSANG, 60, bow tie-donning top civil servant; as Hong Kong's next Chief Executive, by an 800-member Election Committee; in Hong Kong. Tsang, the son of a policeman, secured nominations from more than 700 of the delegates, precluding the need for a formal vote. He takes his oath in Beijing this week and will then complete the remaining two years of the second term of former Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, who resigned in March...
...Chen's claim for asylum; ordinary people can readily identify a (crazy) brave act and seem grateful for Chen's heads-up based on his allegations of an army of Chinese informants operating in their country. Ambassador Fu Ying offers the idea that Chen is an opportunist who has chosen to remain in Australia for lifestyle reasons. It's more plausible, however, to see Chen as someone taking an enormous personal risk, acting out of conscience and rejecting life and work under an authoritarian state. Whatever his motives, Chen has given one regime a slap in the face, while presenting...
...assisted fertility and stem-cell research. But noisy squabbles among coalition partners over policy mask divisions that are even more bitter: over who will spearhead the election campaign. Doubts have grown over the past month about the leadership of Romano Prodi, 67, the former President of the European Commission chosen last year to take on Berlusconi. The recent slump in the E.U.'s popularity is bad news for Prodi, who enthusiastically pushed Italy into the euro zone during his time as Prime Minister. Since public opinion has soured on the European project, opponents would be able to exploit the perception...
Former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 had banned kegs after the 2000 tailgate, and current Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 and the House masters had already chosen to keep the tailgate fields free of anything remotely resembling...
When Beidi Gu ’05 and Minhua Zhang ’05 first met at their Shanghai middle school, sparks didn’t exactly fly. The two had been chosen to co-host the school’s Christmas concert, but Ms. Gu was nervous around her fellow emcee. “He was very famous because he was on student council,” she says. “I was so nervous I didn’t even look...