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...Union Jack, Martin Lee continues his quixotic struggle. He finds himself with a fragile mandate and no allies. Hong Kong business won't touch him; he has fallen out with Patten after calling Patten's compromise on Hong Kong's courts "the last nail in Hong Kong's coffin." Making peace with Beijing has long ceased to be an option. Lee's best gamble may lie not in toning down, but revving up, fighting the approach of '97 in the hopes of inspiring many more to fight in the years beyond...
...captain Susie DeLellis put the nail in the coffin at the 74:15 point, off a feed from Stauffer, and the rest of the game was given to hone the bench...
...Create a social utopia, of course: a state with vast libraries, sports centers, every home wired for interactive television, cradle-to-coffin health care and unemployment benefits equal to your previous year's salary paid until...
...older sister, Thao, a student at Tufts University, comforted Ho's younger sister Tram, as they stood next to the plot. Meanwhile, dozens of mourners slowly filed by the coffin, tossing flowers into the grave. Some knelt before Ho's photograph on the ground or crossed themselves...
...Washington-Beijing relationship was already tense enough when the Clinton Administration allowed congressional pressures on Taiwan to jostle its larger China-policy goals. "Prepare for difficult times," an Administration official said darkly. "This is another nail in the coffin of China policy." Beijing's ultimate reaction could range from trade retaliation to rapprochement with Iran to, perhaps most troubling, noncooperation with U.S. efforts to resolve the standoff over North Korea's nuclear-weapons program...