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...will mean a flood of cheap imported produce and lower incomes and, more fundamentally, that the KMT will eventually reunify with a country they consider alien. The KMT's Yunlin chief, Huang Shang-wen, knows how his party can regain votes: "For us to win elections, we need to lean toward independence." But that would sacrifice the KMT's core supporters. Hung on the paradox, Huang is drafting his resignation letter...
...Yassin, in his elliptical way, sketched out for me how Hamas might consider a more accommodating solution. The sheik was cadaverously frail, and he had been ill for two weeks when I gained a brief audience at his house. His high-treble voice was so faint I had to lean awkwardly close to hear. But he remained the movement's ultimate authority. While he leveled boiler-plate criticism at the "racist" Israeli state and the religious rationale for Hamas' stand, he hinted there was room for compromise. In pursuit of Hamas' goals, he said, "you don't jump there...
Many Bush allies are trying to push up the return of the President's longtime aide Karen Hughes from her semi-retirement in Austin, Texas, to restore the balance in Bush's world between Rove's political instincts, which lean toward tending the party's base, and her more "Mom-in-the-kitchen sense of the country," as an adviser described it. "There is a necessary push-pull between the two of them that can't happen on the phone," says a Bush official. Another puts it more darkly: "The longer they wait for her to get back, the less...
...intellectual brand of aggressive but melodic pop-punk,” Heather Hates You isn’t afraid of mixing things up. This hometown favorite will be playing tracks off of their first studio album Operation Suckerpunch and will be joined by Simple Discourse and The Casual Lean. Tickets $6. 18+. 9:15 p.m. T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline Street, Central Square...
...more and more law schools open up chapters, O’Brien said she hopes a “lean,” decentralized structure of student leaders trained in local voting law will be prepared to organize thousands of volunteers come November...