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...independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party. Japanese tourists regularly visit, looking for scattered vestiges of their country's 50-year rule on the island, but Westerners have only trickled in, deterred by the four-hour-plus train ride or stop-and-start bus trip down Taiwan's congested west coast. That is expected to change now that the high-speed train makes Tainan an easy day-trip...
...limbs." One survivor of the cockle picker tragedy, Lin Guo, gave evidence from behind a screen in the courtroom as his family in China, who live in the same village as Lin Liang Ren's relatives, had already been threatened and his father beaten. Perhaps Little Lin, on the coast of China, dreaming of a restaurant in Cambridge, is right after all; there are ways in which Fujian and Britain are closer to each other than you might think...
...first-time writer-director of In the Land of Women, Jon Kasdan (son of Big Chill director Lawrence Kasdan), says, "He's a new kind of nerdy Jewish guy: both self-deprecating and self-possessed. He's taken the New York thing and moved it over to the West Coast--not a bad role to carve out for yourself...
Perhaps the biggest variable in this weekend’s match-ups, however, will be Mother Nature. The Crimson’s track record with her hasn’t been too impressive—the trip down to Ft. Myers for the Florida Gulf Coast Invitational in March was cancelled on account of snowy conditions at Logan Airport, and the season home opener against Holy Cross was postponed due to “unplayable conditions...
...democratic, and the economic growth rate of sub-Saharan Africa remained above 5% last year. Ghana has just celebrated 50 years of independence and is prospering. Last year's elections in Congo went better than most people dared hope. A new peace deal has been brokered in the Ivory Coast. But there are also serious negatives: conflict between Ethiopia and Somalia; political repression in Zimbabwe; genocide in Darfur...