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...Eager to put the island's militarist past to bed, and eager to distance itself further from the Chinese mainland, from which Chiang hailed, Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is in the process of erasing the Generalissimo from public view. Late last year, Chiang's name was uncoupled from that of the capital's international airport, and, in February, his statues were removed from all military bases. Then, in a stealthy overnight raid, the DPP-led local government of Kaohsiung, Taiwan's second city, dismantled a huge Chiang presiding over the city's cultural center and secreted...
...joke may or may not have been scripted, but whenever it popped into his head, McCain was clearly eager to deliver it. The two men have been competitors for mere months, but in that short time, Romney's anchorman good looks and practiced ease have come to symbolize the exact type of carefully calibrated retail politics that provoked McCain's outsider assault on Bush in 2000. But his engagement with Romney on this level is more than just a mere gambit at a time that Romney has surged to the lead in Iowa polls - it's a genuine expression...
...1980s. After presiding over a vigorous question-and-answer session with Sen and other panelists, the center’s outgoing director, Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy Dennis F. Thompson, expressed disappointment that the panel could not go on longer. “I’m eager to continue the argument with each of them,” he said. Among the panelists—all former fellows of the center—were University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann ’71, who has written a book with Thompson, Samantha Power, a Kennedy School of Government professor...
...whole enterprise. Instead of spending hours before a glowing Apple in an attempt to outshine his section on the following day, a student can now indulge his narcissism with the brutal military conquest of his peers. The former case is irritating, but at least it earned some eager tyke a meticulous knowledge of Kant. And whatever happened to duels? This lust for social dominance could well eradicate itself if we only returned to the days of pistols at dawn...
...Chicago. Because I was the only Spanish-speaking reporter in my newsroom, I was assigned to cover the Reagan Administration's sweeping amnesty for illegal immigrants. The measure was also supposed to crack down on future illegal immigration. It didn't. Desperate indocumentados kept pouring in, and eager U.S. businesses kept hiring them. A decade later, when I was based in Mexico City, Washington tried again with the Illegal Immigrant & Migrant Responsibility Act. It was going to "seal" the border with more fences and thousands of new border patrol agents. It didn't. By 2000, in fact, the number...