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...green" camp?won only 101 out of 225 seats in the fiercely fought contest. The winner: the "blue" Kuomintang- or KMT-led opposition, which favors eventual reunification with China, managed to retain a slim majority by securing 114 seats, just one more than it previously held. KMT chairman Lien Chan emerged from his office at 8:30 p.m. wearing his biggest smile since losing a close presidential race to Chen in March. As supporters applauded and firecrackers popped, Lien proclaimed: "This is not only a victory for the KMT but also for the Republic of China...
...without a clear mandate and spawned weeks of street protests by the KMT-led opposition. That stretched into acrimonious months of ballot recounts and lawsuits challenging both the vote tally and the circumstances of the shooting incident. Though the courts have upheld Chen's winning margin, KMT chairman Lien Chan, who ran against Chen, has yet to concede defeat, and the KMT and its allies have used their current slim majority in the legislature to block everything from buying U.S. arms to changing history books...
...often, they pay an appalling price to feel?and look?cool. Among the 30 patients in the head-injury ward at Hanoi's Viet Duc Hospital, doctors say 70-80% are there due to motorcycle accidents. Dr. Nguyen Kim Lien, a steely eyed woman in her 40s who runs the ward, estimates that a third of her patients wouldn't be there if they had been wearing helmets. For her part, Dr. Lien says she sticks to a bicycle, always wears a helmet and insists that all her family members do, too. But old habits are hard to change, even...
...younger generation of stalwarts, especially three comers known by their collective nickname Ma-Li-Chiang, or "strong horsepower": Taipei mayor Ma Ying-jeou, Taoyuan county magistrate Chu Li-lun and Taichung mayor Jason Hu Chih-chiang. All are under 55, fluent in English and untouched by corruption scandals (unlike Lien, a multimillionaire whose family wealth critics have linked to his father's use of KMT connections...
...horsepower has sputtered. All three expected to provide Lien with tidy margins in their districts, yet in each place Chen won more votes than he did four years ago. Most damaged is Ma, who appeared at postelection protests to urge supporters to return home?and was booed. As the demonstrations continued, Ma distanced himself from Lien, insisting the party abide by a recount long before Lien reluctantly agreed. The move won Ma support from Taiwan's population, which saw him as a cool head in hot times, but irked party leaders intent on unity. Ma remains Lien's heir apparent...