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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...
...instruction and Harvard’s generous reading period would be maintained. Calendar reform certainly seems like a win-win situation, and many groups have recognized it as such. In a position paper released last week, the Undergraduate Council (UC) demonstrated the considerable student support for the proposal and laid out a number of additional reasons to change the calendar (if one doesn’t find a true break in January compelling enough). As the UC points out, a reformed calendar would relieve stress and improve mental and physical health, give students time to see friends and family, mesh...
...Crimson coach Scott Anderson—who has spent much of his nearly 20 years coaching at Harvard in the much more laid-back confines of Jordan Field—immediately recognized the difference...
...Lozano says he went around to the other side of the car, opened the door and saw that Sgrena had been shot in the left shoulder. He says he picked her up and laid her down on the wet ground whereupon the medic tore her shirt open to find the wound and dress it. After a blanket was then wrapped around her, he says, "I picked her up and put her in the back of my Humvee to take her to the 'cash' [Combat Support Hospital]." Speeding down the road, radio calls were put out to indicate that Lozano...
...members of the police, which are thought to have links to a rival Shi'ite militia, the Badr Brigade. By the end of March local officials say nearly 60 people had been killed. On March 20 Mahdi Army fighters torched police checkpoints in 15 different neighborhoods around Diwaniyah and laid claim to the territory, prompting U.S. forces to launch a counterattack on on April...