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...Richard Ma, the last witness called yesterday, was a resident at Cambridge Hospital last April and examined Pring-Wilson when he was brought in from the police station on the day of his arrest and the following...
Over Denner’s objection that Ma was insufficiently qualified to give expert testimony on Pring-Wilson’s state of mind, Ma opined that Pring-Wilson suffered “no obvious head injury...
...with a system of primary elections for candidates and intraparty elections for senior party positions. It barred candidates tainted by accusations of corruption or who amassed "black-gold" fortunes through Mafia connections. Most important, it promoted a 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...
...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...
...came quickly. Two months after I met Mohammed, the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv printed a deck of cards showing 34 Hamas leaders targeted for assassination. Mohammed, his face a blank silhouette, was the jack of spades, No. 9 on the list. Two days later, an Israeli Apache helicopter gunship located Mohammed's walkie-talkie as he sat in a car about 100 yards from where I had met him. "It was his one hobby, to swim," Mohammed's brother later told me. "His fate was to die by the sea." The helicopter launched at least three Hellfire missiles...