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Every so often, Taiwan's laid-back ancient capital, Tainan, has a media moment. In 2004, it came when President Chen Shui-bian survived an assassination attempt while campaigning for re-election in his native county. Last fall, the island's ravenous press corps lined Tainan's streets to greet another hometown hero, New York Yankees pitcher Wang Chien-ming, when he returned to spend the off-season with his parents. But the most recent development will likely outlast the next-day news cycle: the sleek new bullet train has arrived, opening up a southward escape route from scooter-choked...
...rail connection, which opened in January, means the majority of Taiwan's population can reach Tainan in less than two hours, raising hopes that the island's spiritual and cultural center will thrive once again. "This is where Taiwan's modern civilization began," says Tsai Bi-ju, Tainan's international-affairs section chief, referring to the city's 200-year reign as the island's capital before Taipei replaced it in 1885. Tainan's founding father, a Ming dynasty general called Koxinga, arrived from China in 1661 with a fleet of artists and scholars, intent on transforming the Dutch-ruled...
...requires cultural reorientation. Taxi drivers and shopkeepers speak the Taiwanese dialect instead of Mandarin, and politics here are decidedly "green"-the color of President Chen and his independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party. Japanese tourists regularly visit, looking for scattered vestiges of their country's 50-year rule on the island, but Westerners have only trickled in, deterred by the four-hour-plus train ride or stop-and-start bus trip down Taiwan's congested west coast. That is expected to change now that the high-speed train makes Tainan an easy day-trip...
...Zailskas became the second freshman in as many games to pick up his first collegiate win yesterday, going six innings and allowing only two earned runs in the Crimson’s 9-4 victory over the University of Rhode Island in nonconference action at Bill Beck Field in Kingston, R.I. After recording a one-pitch save for freshman Eric Eadington Sunday against Cornell, senior Jake Bruton pitched three innings of one-run relief of Zailskas (1-0).Nick Greenwood (0-3) took the loss for the Rams (8-18, 3-3 Atlantic 10), getting roughed up for eight earned...
Despite being the daughter of a former Miss Rhode Island, Sinnott said she didn’t plan on following in her mother’s footsteps until recently...