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That discovery last month made the Suitcase Murder one of Taiwan's juiciest crime stories, and it's only gotten raunchier since. The case landed on the desk of Taipei detective Shih Yi-ting, of the force's two-year-old Cybercrime Squad. Shih began by looking at Lin's computer and studying the records of his Internet provider. She discovered that on the night of his death, Feb. 3, Lin had been on line for 57 minutes starting around 6:00 p.m. The provider also revealed that Lin had visited a gay website and had entered a chat room...
...budget to energy policy to national security and foreign affairs, there's almost no major issue that doesn't feel his touch. But last week, just two days after he underwent his second cardiac surgery in three months, the 60-year-old Vice President was back at his desk--his return hastened, perhaps, by a boss who insisted there was no reason for Cheney to even consider slowing down. "He's very important," the President said. "He is needed. This country needs his wisdom and judgment...
...holds spaghetti suppers and sock hops. A stickler for safety, Bush lectured the school bus driver for speeding through railroad crossings. She tacked posters of Mother Teresa and Martin Luther King Jr. to her bedroom walls and affixed pictures of the Columbine victims to the bulletin board over her desk. Her parents say she wanted to be a human-rights activist...
There is something suspect, however, about the way many alumni have remained connected to Harvard--namely by dumping money on the president's desk--but have ceased interacting with the members of the College themselves. Except when delivering a lecture about their latest book, watching the occasional Game or moving their son into the Yard, alumni rarely return to the Square that was once their own--and rarely seek connection with the students who have taken their place in the classrooms and in the houses. These graduates choose to express their loyalty through money rather than any serious connection...
...White, in other words, may very well hold her onetime sponsor's fate in her hands. And no one who knows her doubts she will tackle this case with the same energy she gives to every one that crosses her Manhattan desk...