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...suicide. ARRESTED, ALFREDO ASTIZ, 50, in Buenos Aires. The "Blond Angel of Death" participated in the torture and murder of thousands of Argentinians during the 1976-83 military regime. Despite the severity of his crimes, Astiz was not prosecuted in Argentina because of a general amnesty in 1987. CHARGED. LIN LIN LOW, 27, for possession of cocaine; in Singapore. The former television actress, also known as Michelle Low, is the only person ever to be charged with the offense in Singapore. SENTENCED. BARRY GEORGE, 41, to life in prison for the murder of popular broadcaster and Princess Di look-alike...
...that Shu Qi, after a frenetic five years in the klieg lights, is one lived-in girl. Born into what she calls a "poor, but not terribly poor, traditional Taiwanese family," her childhood was far from blessed. The family never ate extravagantly, and Shu Qi (who grew up as Lin Li-huei but had her name changed at age 17 by a Taiwanese agent who thought it sounded more artistic) was seldom allowed to buy things for herself. She remembers a childhood education "revolving around hitting and scolding." That helped make her grow up quickly and with an independent streak...
...ramshackle offices of most of the city's funeral companies are located reveals a world that is at least murky, if not outright illicit. At the sight of a journalist, most of the morticians disappear through back doors or behave as if they are mute. One, Lo Shuan-lin of the Lucky Flower Village Funeral Co., complains his police informants are charging too much. "The cops want $600 for a corpse," he says, adding that the high prices are eating away at the funeral companies' bottom lines, forcing them to pursue customers more "aggressively...
...tell you a good story about how he got shot at." The reference is to a former director of the Taipei Office of Funeral Management (OFM) whose car window was smashed last year, presumably by a bullet. "Some of these funeral companies are run by gangsters," says Lin Liang-sheng, an OFM section chief. "But we have to keep fighting. We can't be scared...
...China. "The move to China is inevitable," says Chang. In five years, China may have dulled Taiwan's technological edge and stolen its best people, and that's bad news for any leader of Taiwan. Worse, "China's growing economic leverage could intensify the domestic urge to unify," says Lin Chu-chia, professor of economics at National Chengchi University. In which case, those who have already voted once with their feet will be unlikely to cast a ballot for Chen Shui-bian...