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...country from slipping into Communist control. Stationed in Shanghai and then Kaifeng, Rowan develops both a sympathy for the peasants caught between the battling political factions, and a gnawing desire to document the pitfalls of America's misguided efforts to prop up the regime of Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek...
...archrival, the Kuomintang (KMT). But if Taoyuan voter Chou Hui-mei, a 45-year-old furniture importer, is anything to go by, Chen's strategy is having some success bridging that ideological gap. Chou's parents were mainlanders who fled to the island along with Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists in 1949, and she herself was once a member of the KMT. But she's switching sides, she says, because she agrees with the DPP's policy of putting Taiwan first. "I was born in Taoyuan and identify myself as Taiwanese," she says. "I'm not worried about China...
David Aulicino, a Yale senior, said that there were 20 students in the pep squad and “many other friends everywhere helping us to pull it off.” Perhaps most surprisingly, Michael Kai, also a Yale senior, said that he had Harvard support, and that “there was a guy in the band who helped me out getting into the stands.” But even more shocking than the revelation of traitors in our midst is the amount of resources that were spent to make the prank the “epic?...
Aulicino and Kai claim that the reaction at Yale has been profound, as the campus finally got to taste victory at the Harvard-Yale game, something no current Yale student has ever experienced. The Yale fans attending the game also got to experience the primal rush of mob violence, as they stole Harvard’s flag and, in sportsmanlike fashion, proceeded to viciously beat the Harvard students trying to retrieve...
...first issue of the Far Eastern Economic Review, dated Oct. 16, 1946-14 months after the Japanese surrendered Hong Kong-ran a report saying the colony's Kai Tak airport would have to be replaced by a facility on a bigger, safer site. Kai Tak, in fact, grew and prospered and lasted another 51 years. The Review lasted even longer, reporting on business and political issues from every country in the region. But last week owner Dow Jones & Co. announced that following six unprofitable years, the Review would be turned into a monthly periodical of opinion pieces...