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...Taiwan as a de facto independent state and desire an identity of their own. The search for Taiwan identity also had a sharp anti-KMT edge. The KMT has historically been the party of the mainlanders who came to Taiwan with Chiang and who still hold attachments to China. Local Taiwanese islanders resented the intrusion, as well as the KMT's long dominance of the island's politics. Those Taiwanese turned...
...Taichung, Ma is whisked from the tracks into a waiting car and driven at top speed to Caotun township in Nantou county. Once there, Ma, casually clad in a pinstriped shirt and blue jeans, takes questions informally from an excited group of villagers at the home of a local antique collector. At 10:30, Ma is still telling jokes and talking politics. One giddy, curly-haired woman asks him to autograph her Coach handbag...
...able to interact with works of art that they may have previously encountered only in photographs. According to Thomas Batchelder, the undergraduate coordinator of the HAA department, the concentration’s annual budget includes provisions for these graduate excursions. “It really covers travel, hotels, local travel, and meals...The idea is that funding should not be an obstacle that would keep students from participating,” says Hugo van der Velden, a professor of HAA, who plans to take his fifth graduate trip this year. Unfortunately, though, opportunities have traditionally been limited for Harvard...
Stephen D. Sugarman, a professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, said if the case is upheld in court, some home-schoolers may run into trouble. "Local school districts have their own autonomy and could sue people," he said. "Somebody could start bureaucratically making it more difficult for home-schoolers...
...week, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist called for a new vote. But Crist is a Republican and is making mischief for the Democrats. For one thing, he says he won't pay for a new vote. Indeed, other leading state Republicans including House Speaker Marco Rubio oppose efforts to include local election supervisors in any primary funded by the Democratic party. Like other G.O.P. leaders, Rubio is washing his hands and letting the Democrats battle it out. "If they can do it without the state being involved, fine." Rubio told TIME. "If not, my perception is that we've already...