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...KILLED. HAMSIRAJI SALI, a leader of the extremist Islamic group Abu Sayyaf, and five fellow militants in a shootout with government troops; on the island of Basilan in the southern Philippines. In 2002 the U.S. indicted Sali in connection with the 2001 kidnapping of three Americans, two of whom died in captivity, and offered a $5 million reward for his capture. Sali's death marked the latest victory for the Philippine government in its recent crackdown on the extremist group. Earlier this month, police arrested six alleged Abu Sayyaf members and seized 50 kilograms of explosives, which authorities said were...
...Down in Yunlin, however, few people wonder why the KMT's emperor has no clothes. Typical of rural Taiwan, the county is populated almost entirely by native-Taiwanese farmers, whose ancestors moved to the island from mainland China centuries before Chiang Kai-shek followed with his retreating KMT 55 years ago. For decades they supported the KMT, then Taiwan's only party, which co-opted local ?lites and controlled loans to farmers to win loyalty. Now that's changing. Locals worry that the KMT's desire for closer ties with the mainland will mean a flood of cheap imported produce...
...That leaves Lien, 67, gambling that he can harness voter outrage at what he considers an unfair election in order to breathe new life into the KMT. Yet parlaying indignation into political gains will be tough. He must quickly reconcile his party with the island's fast-growing sense of a Taiwanese (as opposed to Chinese) identity, and overcome deep factional divides. Failure will probably cost Pan-Blue its majority in the legislature during elections this December?its last toehold on power. Success will require winning a tough two-front war. On one side are Taiwanese voters, like those...
...rate Sheik Mohammed is building resorts, an ever increasing number of tourists will be able to join the fun. Up the coast a few miles from the Burj, Dubai is creating a massive complex of hotels and condos called the Palm on a man-made island in the shape of?no joking?a giant palm tree. Another ambitious resort named the World is being constructed on another man-made island in the form of?naturally?a map of the world. Recently Sheik Mohammed announced plans for Dubailand, a $4.9 billion megaproject that will include the Mall of Arabia, and theme...
...Crimson returns to Soldiers Field tomorrow at 3 p.m. to face off against Rhode Island...