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Nationalist Party frontman and Harvard Law School (HLS) graduate Ma Ying-jeou is set to assume Taiwan’s top executive office in the wake of his victory in the country’s recent presidential elections. Ma, a 1981 HLS alumnus and the former mayor of Taipei City...
Though some of the British volunteers had had military or police training, most were mild-mannered office workers from British diplomatic facilities in the United States. When disaster strikes, their task is more consular than heroic - they identify British citizens who are dead, missing or injured, while helping to assist...
The gentleman was a goon. Richard Widmark, whose death on Monday was announced by his wife Susan Blanchard, had one of the grisliest, most electrifying debuts in movie history. In the 1947 Kiss of Death, he played the psychopathic Tommy Udo, maniacally giggling as he pushed a wheelchair-bound old...
The Game Plan In his memoir, Obama recalls a tactic he learned as a black teenager in a white world. "People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves," he writes. "They were more than satisfied; they were relieved - such a pleasant surprise...
Personality-based television is all the rage these days, and for good reason. The kind of high-concept, high-execution shows that make the airwaves in the new cable order are often just a little too unrealistic to float. The blanket solution of more than a few programs has been...