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...presidential offices. "I think the President may consider our building an eyesore," says KMT spokesman Tsai Cheng-yuan. Some members say publicly that they should return all questionable assets to the government, rather than face the humiliation of being forced to divest. Coming clean would, says KMT parliamentarian Wu Den-yi, "relieve the party of a historical burden." Even if the cost is its showcase headquarters, the KMT may find it's time to leave its lucrative past behind...
...country's ruling military junta to throw him in prison. As a protest, the gambit was somewhat flawed. The junta was happy to jail him, but they kept letting him out. Every time Mawdsley was deported, he would return, like a self-appointed Daniel in the lion's den...
...Hale Russell ’05, a Crimson editor, is a history concentrator in Adams House. He’s currently in Den Haag studying the distinction between conflict resolution, conflict management and conflict mitigation—a far cry from his current talents in conflict creation—and taking weekend jaunts to Prague...
...brewer. On the road again Italian banks agreed to help refinance Fiat's chronic 16.6 billion debt to keep it from junk status. But Fiat's problems continue, and the controlling Agnelli family admitted it may need to sell the auto division. The Norse force Norway's largest bank, Den Norske Banke, agreed to buy the country's top insurer, Storebrand, for $1.96 billion in cash and stock. The deal should help fend off foreign predators. Pump up the margins France's Michelin will sever ties with the European arm of General Motors in order to focus on higher-margin...
...baiting a fishhook, Van der Graaf lived in the small town of Harderwijk with his wife and three-month-old baby. "He was not given to jokes or eccentricities," says Caroline Hoogendijk, a director of the Dutch Veganism Association who worked closely with Van der Graaf. Wien van den Brink, head of a farmer's activist group from nearby Putten op de Veluwe and a candidate on Fortuyn's list, was left unimpressed in his frequent dealings with Van der Graaf. "You had the impression that he lived in his own world and didn't expect anyone outside...