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...rail connection, which opened in January, means the majority of Taiwan's population can reach Tainan in less than two hours, raising hopes that the island's spiritual and cultural center will thrive once again. "This is where Taiwan's modern civilization began," says Tsai Bi-ju, Tainan's international-affairs section chief, referring to the city's 200-year reign as the island's capital before Taipei replaced it in 1885. Tainan's founding father, a Ming dynasty general called Koxinga, arrived from China in 1661 with a fleet of artists and scholars, intent on transforming the Dutch-ruled...
There's stiff competition - the handling of mad cow disease, the royal family's years of dysfunction - but it is hard to think of anything in modern times that has held Britain up to such, and such richly deserved, international contempt as the case of the 15 captured mariners in the Shatt al Arab. There was the original sin; messing about in lightly armed little boats in a waterway contested by Iran - a bit like poking a mad dog in the eye without being prepared to clobber it with a big stick if it bites. There has been the miserable...
...housing developments. They have names like British Village, which resembles a gated California suburb, and Dream City, which supposedly will have its own conference center, supermarket and American-style school. The Turkish developers of Naz City, a high-rise condominium complex, are trying to sell house-proud Kurds on modern apartment living. An American company wants to build Iraq's first ski resort in the mountains near the Turkish and Iranian borders. While citizens in Baghdad struggle to survive, a sign in Arbil declares that the city is "striving for perfection...
Gerald Early is the Merle Kling professor of modern letters at Washington University in St. Louis...
Freeze Magazine, the steamy, self-purportedly escapist publication for Harvard’s modern woman, is currently on thin...