Word: hei
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...Taste of Freedom Thank you for Chiu Hei-Yuan's viewpoint "Growing Pains" [June 26], on Taiwan's political mess. As a native of Taiwan, I have always been very proud of our bloodless transition from Chiang Kai-shek's authoritarianism to full-fledged democracy. Democracy means nothing less than all the political, press and religious freedoms we currently enjoy. It certainly does not mean having a totalitarian dictatorship appoint an unelected administrator for us. But the Chinese Communist Party thinks it is possible to impose such fake democracy-its "one country, two systems" policy-on Taiwan. The party...
...That could change if Chen or his wife become directly linked to illegal activities, notes Sheng, which might cause a critical mass of DPP members to join calls for his ouster. "The DPP can tolerate poor government performance, but it can't tolerate corruption within the First Family," says Hei-yuan Chiu, a sociologist at Academia Sinica, a state-funded research institute...
...same holds true for opera: on any given night, whether at a leading international house or a provincial company, the languishing soprano heroine or the menacing bass villain is now likely to come from East Asia?particularly Korea. The lyric soprano Hei-Kyung Hong and the coloratura soprano Sumi Jo currently dominate their roles to a degree unrivaled by any Western singers...
...music was indeed heavenly. Particularly striking were Michael Schade as Tamino and Hei-Kyung Hong as Pamina. Both possess remarkably clear and lyrical voices whose timbres match seamlessly. Their seemingly identical musical conceptions created the well-blended texture and flexible phrasing that are so crucial for the underlying drama, in which Tamino and Pamina overcome the ordeals of initiation into Sarastro’s order and progress towards enlightenment only through cooperation and mutual support. Their journey was admirably accompanied by the Met orchestra, which played with impeccable precision and clarity...