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...Kaohsiung. The city, the world's sixth busiest port, is in southern Taiwan, the DPP's traditional power base, where voters back the party's support for Taiwanese nationalism. But unlike more rural parts of the south, DPP support in Kaohsiung is uneven. While the DPP's Frank Hsieh won mayoral elections in 1998 and 2002, his KMT challenger in the last race, a 64-year-old former university administrator and onetime deputy mayor named Huang Jun-ying, nearly handed him an upset. This year, Huang is back, with a campaign emphasizing economic development and clean government. Hsieh...
...participation in a pivotal 1979 pro-democracy protest against the then-ruling Kuomintang, which came to be known as the Kaohsiung Incident. She is a fiery speaker, and can easily attract hundreds of supporters to public rallies. And she's running a campaign that emphasizes her ties to Hsieh's powerful legacy - her supporters carry signs that say, "Good baton, pass it on." During his six years in office Hsieh led a major cleanup of Kaohsiung's Love River, turning the polluted waterway that runs through the heart of the city into a regional attraction that even Huang acknowledges...
...institutional investors like pension funds, with obligations 15, 20 and 40 years out, 9% isn't that bad. They also like the idea that hedge funds provide a cushion in down markets since they don't closely mirror returns from stocks or bonds. David Hsieh of Duke University's Fuqua School of Business studied hedge funds before and after 2000 and found a general decrease in risk...
...anti?gay marriage and anti-abortion agendas of some? Jesus served the poor and loved the neglected. His message was about caring for the destitute and the outcast. If Christianity in America is to be defined solely by what it stands against, then God help us all. Evelyn Hsieh San Diego Bush owes the evangelicals nothing. To pay off religious groups, whether on the left or right, for electoral support is to put this country on an ugly road to theocracy. Dick Marti Tifton, Georgia, U.S. The continued focus of the mainstream media on the Evangelicals and conservatives who align...
...EVELYN HSIEH San Diego...