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...would-be assassin might not have killed President Chen, but the shooter still managed to gravely wound Taiwan's democracy and deepen the divisions within Taiwanese society. If Chen staged the assassination attempt, he won a close race but lost his credibility with voters. I am now too pessimistic and disappointed to trust and support Chen and his party. The greatest losers are not Chen's political opponents but the Taiwanese people. If this turmoil cannot be settled fairly, Taiwanese politics may become chaotic. Song Xiaowen Pingzhen City, Taiwan...
...what will mark this Easter week as different for an even greater number of Christians--and perhaps deepen the nature of its observance a bit--will be the ongoing impact of The Passion of the Christ. In addition to attending church services, many will fill the plush pews at their local cinemas to absorb--some for the first time, others for the second or fifth--Gibson's graphic celluloid sermon in parallel with their pastors' talks. In the past six weeks the film has made $340 million. It has opened in about 350 additional theaters for Holy Week, but even...
...violence but at the same time expressing sympathy for their grievances and condemning Coalition actions - many Shiites loyal to Sistani have nonetheless joined protest actions led by the Sadrists. The danger is that the cost in casualties and strife of suppressing Moqtada's intifada and the Sunni insurgency could deepen anti-American feeling among neutral elements in the Sunni and Shiite communities that have not supported violence...
...Shiite leaders and their followers, having been Iraq's disenfranchised majority since the country was first created by the British, remain suspicious of any effort to dilute the power they'll inherit with democracy. And attacks such as those in Kerbala and Baghdad on Tuesday will likely deepen their resolve to pursue the power that their majority would provide at the polls, and to resist anything that might be construed as a delay...
...been a huge success with students; it is an academic change of pace, and, to paraphrase Marx, they can go to class in the morning, ski in the afternoon and study in the evening. I like winter term because it encourages faculty members to broaden, as well as deepen, their education—to be students as well as scholars. During the regular semesters, there are opportunities to do this; faculty members teach required first-year seminars. But for the most part, regular-semester courses are identified with a department and a discipline and are designed to cover a certain...