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...renegade, mainland-born James Soong, now leads the PFP. A fiery speaker, Soong carried with him many of the KMT's mainland-born legislators. Since making an uneasy peace with Lien and running as his vice-presidential candidate, Soong has turned the postelection fracas to his advantage. KMT insiders insist he pressured Lien to dispute the election results on the night of March 20, and Soong's followers dominated the stage in massive demonstrations that followed. Protests that began as a show of support for the Pan-Blue cause quickly became a showcase for Soong, with many Taiwanese KMT politicians...
...equivalent in their slangy informality? And wasn’t calling ourselves “girls” and “guys” rather than “men” and “women” just a harmless sign of our prolonged adolescence? Why insist upon calling myself a “woman” when I was in no real hurry to grow up and assume the burdens of adulthood...
...Fallujah and elsewhere. U.S. officials have tended to characterize the Sunni insurgency as the work of Baathist "bitter-enders" and expatriate terrorists - not the sort of folks with whom the U.S. maintains a "discussion track." But the reality of Fallujah is plainly a lot messier: Brig.-Gen. Kimmitt insists the Iraqis killed there are almost all insurgents, but local hospital sources insist most were civilians. The scale of the casualties, and the pause for negotiations suggests that instead of isolating a group of desperadoes, the U.S. has confronted broad opposition in Fallujah...
...bets annually. But in Britain, traditional bookmakers like William Hill have been griping for years that because the exchanges allow punters to "lay" bets - bet on a horse, team or competitor to lose, rather like investors who sell stock short - they encourage corruption. No chance, say the exchanges, who insist that picking a loser is no different from picking a winner, and say their technology actually helps track unusual betting patterns. But in a report last week, a British government committee agreed that professional "layers" should be registered. Earlier this month, search engines Yahoo and Google said they would stop...
...that laws will be enforced rigorously, and we demand the strictest punishment when others are caught being dishonest. But as individuals we’re always trying to slip through the cracks. We demand that the system be fair, as long as we ourselves can cheat. Like me: I insist on enforcing the strict interhouse rules that keep Leverett’s dining hall somewhat less crowded, and yet I complain with the best of them when I can’t get into Adams for lunch...