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...frenzy, desperately needs a blueprint to climb out of its economic morass. The Taipei Stock Exchange is down 40% since Chen was elected, and joblessness is at a 23-year high at 3.9%. The Taiwanese for decades forgave the KMT for a multitude of sins?even the imposition of martial law?as long as its stewardship kept economic growth pumping away. Chen cannot expect the same degree of patience in a floundering economy. He needs the people on his side. He needs a legislative victory...
...view, is lying." Was that policy a license for atrocities? Kerrey says the few rules of war "we'd been taught were a violation of the rules of war" that he finally read for the first time last week. He knows that he could be open to court-martial if the Pentagon pursues an investigation...
...inner Leslie on the big screen. Days of Being Wild made him a '60s Ah Fei (shiftless youth) whose mistreating of women is his payback to the mother who deserted him; it won Cheung a Hong Kong Film Award for best actor. In Ashes of Time, cast as a martial-arts scoundrel, he ably anchored a film of top Chinese stars and rapturous visual splendor. In the not-so-gay drama Happy Together he taught Tony Leung Chiu-wai how an actor prepares...
...view, is lying." Was that policy a license for atrocities? Kerrey says the few rules of war "we'd been taught were a violation of the rules of war" that he finally read for the first time last week. He knows that he could be open to court-martial if the Pentagon pursues an investigation...
...skipper of the submarine Greeneville, which sank the Japanese trawler Ehime Maru, killing nine; from the U.S. Navy, with full rank and pension; in Honolulu. A court of inquiry ruled that Waddle had breached proper procedure in the hours preceding the accident, but officials decided against a court-martial...