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...Kai Bowe, an associate show producer on Top Model, says she and her partner crafted 250 hours of raw footage into a full script with characters and storylines. "We don't put the words in the contestants' mouths, but a photo shoot and a watchable episode is created," says Bowe. Clint Catalyst, also an associate producer who worked on scripted television and wrote several novels before joining the Top Model staff, says, "We're storytellers. And we're not recognized as such. There's a notion that people have that there is no writing in reality television, and that...
...Taste of Freedom Thank you for Chiu Hei-Yuan's viewpoint "Growing Pains" [June 26], on Taiwan's political mess. As a native of Taiwan, I have always been very proud of our bloodless transition from Chiang Kai-shek's authoritarianism to full-fledged democracy. Democracy means nothing less than all the political, press and religious freedoms we currently enjoy. It certainly does not mean having a totalitarian dictatorship appoint an unelected administrator for us. But the Chinese Communist Party thinks it is possible to impose such fake democracy-its "one country, two systems" policy-on Taiwan. The party...
...site of the planned government headquarters?4 hectares reclaimed from what was once HMS Tamar, a British Royal Navy base?will adjoin 18 hectares of Central waterfront now being filled in. Two other major harborfront sites?40 hectares in West Kowloon slated for a cultural center and the former Kai Tak airport?are now in planning stages. "These are three very important pieces in the jigsaw of the city," says Bosco Fung, Hong Kong's Director of Planning. "Once finished with these three, we will have a complete picture of the metro area." Hong Kong could yet have a waterfront...
...This standoff is rooted in the past. For much of Taiwan's modern history, the island was essentially a one-party state ruled by the KMT, which brooked little dissent. Only in 1986 did then President Chiang Ching-kuo, Chiang Kai-shek's son, allow the presence of an opposition party, only a year later did he lift martial law and government control of the press, and only last year did the KMT properly elect its own party leader for the first time. The KMT is not accustomed to being out of power. Instead of working together with the administration...
...year-old Beijing native-her parents moved to New York when she was 15-is now the manager of investor relations at Baidu, the search company that recently went public in New York and is taking on Google in the red-hot Chinese Internet market. (Google's China chief, Kai-Fu Lee, is among the more prominent Chinese-American executives in the country.) How He found her way back to the country of her birth is not unusual. After graduating from New York University she got a job at Standard & Poor's as a derivatives analyst. She had been "very...