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...past decade Taiwan has been passionately pursuing a so-called "pragmatic diplomacy," which so far has achieved little effects except in a few small countries in Latin America and West Africa. Tens of millions of dollars flow out of the lonely island every year for almost nothing. The only real success came after Taiwan half-bribed the U.S. Congress and President Clinton into granting President Lee an opportunity to deliver a moving speech at Cornell University, which, however, has turned out to be a bigger trouble for Taiwan than either. Taiwan or the United States would expect. And just like...
ONSTAGE, KEITH JARRETT belies his cerebral, prickly reputation. Swept up in the trancelike flow of his jazz improvisations, he levitates from the piano stool like Jerry Lee Lewis, head thrust back and howling with pleasure. Beneath his fluid fingers, the keyboard ripples spontaneously, spinning out an endless series of riffs and variations, while his lyrical bassist, Gary Peacock, and elegant drummer, Jack DeJohnette, match him move for move. Heads nod approvingly as the melody is handed off from instrument to instrument, three men doing what they love best: making music with hand and heart...
...seldom-enforced rule out of storage, dust it off and apply to a group just because we don't like their message, we would be going against the notion of content blindness that is central to freedom of expression. In a university setting that thrives of the free flow of ideas, free speech assumes even greater importance. If AALARM members were to face disciplinary action. Harvard would be making a mockery of a principle that it ought to prize...
...PREDICTIONS WERE STARK AND frightening. Opponents of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide foresaw serious consequences if the radical priest, ousted in a September 1991 coup d'etat, ever returned to power: rivers of blood would flow through the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and dozens of the regime's opponents would perish in barbarous "necklaces" of burning tires. The poverty-stricken nation would become a Marxist enclave and an enemy of the U.S. So how to explain that a year after Aristide and the country's first democratically elected government were returned to power...
...order to develop, a country must be part of the world in terms of...trade, investments and the flow of goods, services and people," he said. "All developing countries [must] learn to live in the world together...