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Alan Leong, a lawyer and lawmaker, is challenging Beijing-anointed incumbent Donald Tsang to be Hong Kong's next Chief Executive-even though he cannot win. The vote, on March 25, will be cast by an 800-member Election Committee that is largely pro-Beijing, and so pro-Tsang. Leong, 49, spoke with TIME's Peter Ritter about why he is running, Hong Kong's relationship with mainland China, and his sartorial trademark...
...engaged in a televised candidate debate with Donald Tsang last week, Hong Kong's first ever. How do you think it went? People are telling me I spoke their minds during the debate. You can't ask Hong Kong people to imagine or visualize a competitive election. But after the debate, they didn't need to imagine, because they saw it in action. Hong Kong's political landscape will never be the same...
...university poll about the debate showed that nearly 65% of those surveyed would still vote for Donald Tsang if they could. Hong Kong people do not fully realize or appreciate how different I am from Donald Tsang. Also, this is not really a free election. It has always been the accepted position that Beijing wants Donald Tsang to continue in office. So people have the mindset: "Well, Donald Tsang is going to win. I want to vote for the winner, not the loser...
...Black puritans have been trying to ban the word since the 1920s when the white hipster Carl Van Vechten published the book Nigger Heaven. They continued their war through attacks on Redd Foxx, blaxploitation and Donald Goines. But all their efforts have been rewarded with gangsta rap, an art form that has made nigger arguably the most well-known racial or ethnic slur on the planet...
...contrast seems stark. Tommy Franks, the Army general who as chief of Central Command scuttled Anthony Zinni's more robust war plan and agreed with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that invasion-lite was the way to go, got the Presidential Medal of Freedom. So did former CIA chief George ("Slam Dunk") Tenet and L. Paul "Jerry" Bremer, who as Iraqi viceroy fired the entire Iraqi army, a move now widely seen as laying the groundwork for a sustained insurgency...