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Independence for Taiwan is a vexing issue for a variety of reasons. An often overlooked but profound problem concerns the ethnic groups living together on the island. The Democratic Progressive Party and the Kuomintang vie for votes from the Hakka, Taiwanese, mainlanders, aboriginal people and other groups, with generous promises of recognition and, in some cases, special treatment. But neither party has yet been able to define a common identity that all the people here can share. In Taiwan, identity comes before independence. PAUL OLIVER Chunglin, Taiwan
...office rules. France's priciest production ever, Jean-Jacques Annaud's just-released Two Brothers, about two tiger cubs separated at birth, cost about 360 million - a little more than the average U.S. film. Even a quirky, just-off-mainstream U.S. project like Gondry's Eternal Sunshine got a generous budget of about $35 million. Kassovitz speaks for many of his colleagues when he says: "I want to be able to do my movies that come from my mind, and at the same time to make movies that please crowds because of the subject, the way it's done...
...valet learning to adjust to college life. He creates a real character within this fairy stage, who isn’t quite sure what to do now that his duties aren’t as rigid as they once were. It is a generous performance that gives Mably a chance to seem like he has personality and charm, simply because he shares a room with Soren. The purpose of the character goes beyond his help to the other actors, however. Soren’s relatable comprehension of the ridiculousness of the whole fairy tale situation allows the audience to recognize...
...mobile homes," says Rocio Romero, an architect based in Perryville, Mo. "And the prefab homes of 30 years ago were made of cheaper materials. They weren't design oriented. They were reminiscent of trailer homes." Romero rocioromero.com has just begun to produce the LV House kit. With its generous windows and clean, simple lines, the LV House is reminiscent of Philip Johnson's famous Glass House in New Canaan, Conn. Adapted from an inexpensive second home that Romero designed for her parents in Laguna Verde, Chile, the kit produces a rectangular one-story dwelling with two bedrooms and two baths...
...product interactive entertainment. For the past few years, he has been aggressively racking up licenses to movie franchises, like Mission: Impossible, so that Atari can create games based on them. He seemed to have struck gold when he inked a deal--terms undisclosed but by all accounts incredibly generous--with the Wachowski brothers for Enter the Matrix, a game whose plot dovetails with that of Matrix Reloaded, going so far as to buy the company, Shiny Entertainment, that already held the Matrix license...