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...Mayor Hsu Tain-tsair, a U.S.-educated economist, is readying his city for the surge. He has rehabilitated a long-neglected urban canal, allowed expat jazz bands to perform next to 300-year-old temples and supported a public arts district along Hai-An Road where, several years ago, local artists began painting giant murals on the sides of abandoned homes. One eye-popping example, called Blueprint for its rendering of an architectural drawing, spawned an adjacent pub by the same name-one of many in the district that draws late-night sidewalk crowds quaffing Belgian ales...
...then there's the food. In a culture already obsessed with eating, the Tainanese are at the extreme end of the scale. On Yenping Street in the city's Anping district, a cheek-by-jowl crowd converges on weekends to inhale the aroma of xiao chi, or street snacks: fermented tofu, fried wontons, grilled mushrooms and "coffin cakes," the local version of pot pies. It's all good, but the people watching is better. Off the main drag, an elderly man squats beside his own low-tech incarnation of an ice cream truck-a weather-beaten bicycle with a jury...
...annex to a buzzing brasserie, the Press Room (so named because it occupies part of the site that housed a now-defunct Chinese newspaper). With its neighbor M1NT, a private members' club, the Press Room has formed a promising enclave of gentrification in a hitherto overlooked part of Central district, luring happy-hour drinkers in their suited scores. The sociable manager, Matthew Siegel, beckons me from a packed bar out onto the street and down to a quiet doorway some meters yonder. It reminds me of going for a cigarette in the old days, but this time the pleasures...
...David Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann, who were indicted for rape, kidnapping and sexual offense in the Duke lacrosse case, maintained their innocence following a woman's claims that they attacked her at a 2006 team party. The woman changed key parts of her story, and Durham, N.C., district attorney Mike Nifong--who recused himself amid state charges of ethical misconduct--dropped the rape charges. After reinvestigating the case, state attorney general Roy Cooper, rebuking Nifong's "overreaching" "rush to accuse," cleared the men of all charges...
...decentralized its school system and allowed all parents--including illegal immigrants--to vote in school-board elections. (The practice ended with the dissolution of school boards in 2003.) Any parent in Chicago can still vote for local school-council members. The city doesn't track noncitizen voting, but a district spokesman says turnout...