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...reformers may have arrested their slide into irrelevance with yesterday's victory by Anson Chan, a widely known ex-civil servant who has refashioned herself as a champion of universal suffrage. According to returns reported Monday, Chan won about 55% of the vote in a by-election to replace Ma Lik, a prominent pro-Beijing legislator who died in August...
...things may not be that clear-cut. Voter turnout - around 52%, the highest since 2004 - may have been inflated by the stature of the candidates, according to Ma Ngok, a political scientist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Chan, a chief secretary in the last British colonial administration, remains very popular six years after retiring from government. Meanwhile, Ip is still controversial for aggressively pushing anti-sedition legislation during her tenure as Hong Kong's Secretary for Security. Although Ip also positioned herself as pro-suffrage - she says she simply wishes to avoid a confrontation with Beijing over...
...Despite her charisma, Chan's influence will be limited as one of 60 members of Hong Kong's Legislative Council. She will hold the seat for only seven months, when a new crop of legislators will be voted in. According to Ma, Chan's ability to quickly translate her popularity into momentum for reform will determine whether yesterday's victory for democrats was merely symbolic...
...eyes are on her to deliver," Ma says. "Now that she has a kind of mandate, she carries a lot of expectation into office. I think she will be under some pressure to get something done because it seems the democrats haven't been able to do much to move the system forward...
...brainstorming session already started to be realized. A series of landscapes and Middle Eastern images were projected onto the back wall in coordination with the opera, adding a new visual element to their work.OPERATIC TRUSTThe Silk Road Project was founded in 1998 by world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76 to combine traditional music with artistic growth. In 2005, it came to Harvard to begin its five-year residency and partnership with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Each year-since then, the group has staged a series of lectures, workshops, and performances to work with students...