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...TIME: What benefit, if any, would unification with the mainland bring to Taiwan? Chen: Lin Yi-hsiung, the former chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party, has repeatedly called on the PRC to explain the benefits of unification. But the people of Taiwan cannot accept being a local government or a province of the PRC. The will of the 23 million people against being swallowed up by the PRC or living the kind of life lived by people in the PRC is clear and determined...
...recipients of the Hoopes Prize, all seniors, are Judith Batalion, Lauren K. Brozovich, Aaron D. Goldberg, Susannah L. Hollister, Jie Li, Priya H. Patel, Michael H. Tang and Benjamin D. Tolchin of Adams House; Elizabeth D. Chao, Jeremy U. Gaw, Charles C. Lin, Benjamin J. Morgan, Wesley T.W. Shih and Blythe Yee of Cabot House; Andreea S. Balan, Long Cai, Isabel de Sola, Grace Kao, Ciprian Manolescu, Pawel M. Nowak and Shauna L. Shames of Currier House...
...Lucent suspects left China to seek academic and monetary success in America, part of an influx of foreign-born scientists and engineers who helped propel the U.S. to R.-and-D. dominance in the 1980s and '90s. Hai Lin, 30, got a Ph.D. from the New Jersey Institute for Technology in 1996, while his future colleague at Lucent, Kai Xu, 33, got a doctorate in 1995 from Rutgers. Both found work through a technology-employment firm that places talented technicians with companies that need their expertise. For two years they worked as "distinguished members" of Lucent's staff, making...
...became the Amblin of Hong Kong. Four of its films became terrific franchises: A Better Tomorrow (the action epic that made Chow Yun-fat a superstar and John Woo a world-class auteur), A Chinese Ghost Story (a magical romance with Leslie Cheung), Swordsman (whose two sequels displayed Brigitte Lin in all her pansexual glory) and Once Upon a Time in China (which brought Hong Kong stardom...
...Staff writer Jing Lin can be reached at lin4@fas.harvard.edu...