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...force the [Taiwan] question," says a U.S. source. "Taiwan has considerable pride [in its democracy], but they need to be aware that what they say and do has consequences for their security, and for ours." With Chen throttling back during his inauguration last week, the U.S. is off the hook-for now. "We appreciate his pledge [not to change the status quo]," said U.S. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher...
...didn’t think he meant any harm either. But I still think he screwed up royally. That he’s getting off the hook so easily points to a serious problem in our society...
...militia in exchange for an understanding that he would be held only after the transfer of sovereignty. The Abu Ghraib abuse scandal has made it more difficult than ever for Iraqi politicians to support his arrest by the Americans, but Bremer is not inclined to let him off the hook...
...main goal is to create new generations of newspaper readers," says John O'Loughlin, general manager of the Chicago Tribune's RedEye edition, a youth-oriented daily that competes with the Chicago Sun-Times's Red Streak. The industry hopes to hook the kids now and eventually have them trade up to the marquee, paid product. In an early rumbling of that hoped-for switch, RedEye manages to sell about 15% of its copies at 25¢ apiece...
...expect a public library to sit quietly with its hands folded, the new Seattle Central Library is not for you. It has a lunging, irregular exterior wrapped in folds of glass covered with a honeycomb of steel. There are hook holes all over it, so the window washers can scale the angled surface like rock climbers. As buildings go, this one manages to look both precarious and enduring, headlong and immemorial. If Picasso ever painted a library, it might look like this...