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...prepares to embark on a state visit to Latin America that will include transit stops in New York and Houston, Chen is readying a turn on the international stage. In Beijing, however, Chen's visit to the U.S. has caused barely a blip. China is "firmly opposed" to the trip, of course, but the government hasn't issued a statement since the transit stops were announced. Indeed, Beijing's position on Chen has been to have no position: the state-run media hasn't yet mentioned him by name. But Chen's anonymity in Beijing is a stark contrast...
...Chen Shui-bian made history a year ago when he was elected President of Taiwan, ending 55 years of Kuomintang rule. He's now honing his role on the global stage, as a key player in the cross-Strait drama and with a visit later this month to Latin America via the U.S. Chen sat down last week in Taipei for an interview with TIME editors and reporters. Edited excerpts...
...Growing up in Boston in the middle of the nineteenth century, even Henry Adams - author of "The Education Of Henry Adams" and an egregious priss, though a lovely writer - engaged in massive snowball games of war. Adams and his fellows from Boston Latin School were pitted against "the roughs and young blackguards," meaning all the nasty townies looking for social revenge. There were rocks in the snowballs, often. Adams "felt his courage much depressed by seeing one of his trustiest leaders, Henry Higginson - "Bully Hig," his school name - struck by a stone over the eye, and led off the field...
Echeverri and Buitrago, both 35, are heroes in their homeland. Their 1995 release El Dorado sold more than 200,000 copies in Latin America, which made it the best-selling album by a Colombian rock act up to that point. And Echeverri, with her tattoos, piercings and plainspoken attitude, has become a symbol of South American feminism (she plays down such talk: "I would just like to be myself"). The group began as punkish, but it has broadened its sound to include electronica and Colombian folk. "We are modern people," says Echeverri. "But we have links to the past...
Which is part of the point. Youth culture often rejects the past; Aterciopelados is leading a wave of Latin acts that are dragging tradition into the present. In Brazil, performers like Moreno Veloso are blending bossa nova with electronica; in Mexico, Nortec Collective, an organization of Mexican artists, recently released The Tijuana Sessions Vol. 1, a groundbreaking CD fusing traditional norteno (a kind of polka-esque music) with clubland techno. Echeverri and Buitrago are particularly proud that Gozo Poderoso was recorded in Colombia--and in Spanish. "Identity and roots are very important for us," says Echeverri. "We've been listening...