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...want to give Taiwan a place in the world.' FRANK HSIEH, former Premier of Taiwan and an advocate of improving relations with China, after being chosen to run as the ruling Democratic Progressive Party's candidate in the island's March 2008 elections...
...character to yield clues to his political landscape. He's analytical but not self-aware, sometimes so absorbed in big, important musings that he fails to straighten his tie or untuck his trouser legs from his socks or recognize his colleagues. At Labour's annual conference last fall, the premier-in-waiting made awkward progress around a reception organized by the party and full of potential donors, thrusting a large hand at unfamiliar guests and deploying a lame icebreaker about the conference venue in the industrial capital of northwest England. "Gordon Brown," he boomed at each encounter. "What...
...Blair's success in bringing the two sides together, engineered alongside Irish premier Bertie Ahern, has raised suggestions that he could turn his attention to a role in the Middle East after leaving office. Blair would be the first to recognize that the solution for one conflict doesn't simply apply to another, but he could, nonetheless, carry some valuable lessons from the Northern Ireland process...
...Hungarian origins, but more importantly, because he is a passionate believer in hard work, individual enterprise and reward for ambition - an admirer, in other words, of the economic and social dynamism of the United States. As a French person who has studied in one of America's premier universities and is now interning at one of its most respected news magazines, I am pained by the assumption that there's something not typically French about the virtues promoted by Sarkozy. The many thousands of French expatriates working in America's biggest banks and corporations, or running their own businesses...
...with protestors while abiding by FAS guidelines. When controversial DePaul University Professor Norman G. Finkelstein came to Harvard Law School in 2005, many students shouted at and heckled the speaker, but no one was ejected, no one was arrested, and no charges were filed. Similarly, when in 2003 Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao was met by a protester who interrupted his speech shouting pro-Tibetan slogans and unfurling a Tibetan flag, they were removed from the auditorium without incident or arrest. There is no reason why HUPD could not have acted in a similar, appropriate manner this time.Making matters worse, HUPD...