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...year after Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian and his running mate Annette Lu were wounded on the eve of the island's 2004 election, Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau announced last week that it had a suspect: Chen Yi-hsiung, an unemployed man who blamed the President for his economic woes. The only problem: Chen Yi-hsiung is dead. Police say he drowned off the southern city of Tainan 10 days after the March 19 shooting, a death now considered a suicide. It's a case with huge import: hours after the attempted assassination, President Chen won re-election...
...common sentiment: a poll last Wednesday by the China Times newspaper found that only 21% of respondents believe the theory. Even Vice President Lu said last week that she thinks there were two shooters. Facing such doubts, the police are feeling hard-pressed to come up with an explanation that will satisfy critics. "All we can do is try to piece everything together," says Hou Yu-ih, head of the Criminal Investigation Bureau. As yet, a lot of pieces are still missing...
Chen and his lawyer, Shen-Sin Lu, responded by showing the Commission a stack of fake IDs that Chen had collected, saying that he asks everyone buying alcohol for two or three IDs. He also presented the Commission with a petition supporting his case, which he said was signed by over 700 people...
...They should cheer instead. Big Breasts is a celebration of the power of women?as well as a lament about the fecklessness of men?in the world's oldest phallocracy. Mo Yan tells the story of Shangguan Lu, born in the last days of the Qing dynasty, raised with bound feet and married off to an infertile Northeast Gaomi blacksmith who is, she concludes, "a useless gob of snot outside the house and totally subservient in front of his mother." Desperate for a son, the girl cultivates a succession of other dolts and losers, who give her seven consecutive daughters...
Another freshman making a splash was Lu Haibo, who came through the 100 meter run in 2:39.00, good enough for sixth...