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...surprisingly, the man trying to knock down the barrier is Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian, whose Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) broke the KMT's longstanding stranglehold on power in March 2000 elections. Chen last month made good on an election promise when his cabinet introduced legislation barring political parties from investing in profit-making enterprises. The bills, if passed by Taiwan's parliament, would also give the government the go-ahead to open the KMT's books and seize assets deemed to have been obtained illegally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kiss Your Assets Goodbye | 10/7/2002 | See Source »

...performers wouldn't be allowed to interact with bystanders in public spaces. More recently, a bar named after the Hollywood film Coyote Ugly opened up. The movie featured supermodel Tyra Banks dancing on top of a bar; when some local girls tried emulating Tyra Banks they were told to knock it off. In Singapore, it's illegal to dance on bars. Then Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said the government might consider allowing people to dance on bar tops. It might, he suggested, encourage creativity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cultural Capital? | 10/7/2002 | See Source »

...glass, a technique she learned from an ad. “You know, where all the sophisticated people are swirling their Bailey’s,” she says. “You’ve never seen it?” There’s a knock at the door and one of the boys scrambles over to the peephole and opens the door for Robin S. McNamara ’06 and Kim M. Chen ’06. The group gets bigger, drunker and more anxious to party. There is some talk of work...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Game On! | 10/3/2002 | See Source »

...only takes a few drinks to knock Yoko C. Christian ’04 totally off her rocker. “Wooooooo!!!” she yelled at her waiter after having two beers at lunch on Monday at Grafton. “Let’s kiss with our tongues...

Author: By Corker Q. Picker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gossip Guy! | 10/3/2002 | See Source »

...competition gets much tougher this weekend, as Harvard opens its Ivy League schedule Saturday afternoon at Brown, last year’s league co-champion. Ara said the team will need to play much better if it expects to knock off the Bears...

Author: By Jack Muse, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Soccer Wins On Late Goal | 9/25/2002 | See Source »

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