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...flesh in working-class neighborhoods, engaged in televised candidate debates with Leong, and even taken a ride in an open-topped bus, waving to people who can't vote for him. Tsang is doing all this because he wants a wider mandate; he is a man with something to prove. "My objective," Tsang told TIME in an interview in his campaign office, "is not only to win the votes of the 800 people who are the delegates of the Election Committee. My campaign is to win the hearts of the 7 million people of Hong Kong...
François Bayrou insists he has nothing to prove. His life story suggests otherwise. The leader of the centrist Union for French Democracy (UDF) and for many years a minor presence in the rarefied world of French politics, Bayrou has emerged as a serious contender for the country's presidency. He has done so in spite of his homespun background. A smallholder's son from the Pyrenees, saddled with a stutter as a kid, he never rounded off his résumé at one of France's prestigious grandes écoles as many politicians...
Princeton's Pagels and Harvard's King try to decipher the document. Why reward Judas? Because Jesus' death helps prove what the Gospel writer thought was Christ's real message: that his--and our--true essence is not flesh but immortal spirit. And the text bad-mouths other disciples as an indirect way of attacking 2nd century Christian bishops who encouraged believers to be martyrs...
Brian Viglione, percussionist for The Dresden Dolls, made it a point to prove in a recent workshop that he is anything but a “Coin-Operated Boy,” the title of one of the group’s biggest hits. At the event, held Monday night in Hilles Library, Viglione emphasized the importance of individuality and focusing on the present—both in art and in life. The workshop was sponsored by the Office of the Arts at Harvard (OFA) and the Harvard College Alliance for Rock and Roll (HCARAR), and it drew a crowd...
...respond to requests for an interview, but denied any wrongdoing in an e-mail: "My philosophy was to make all decisions in the best interests of the students we served." Anderson now consults to the school district and heads a dropout prevention program - an ironic choice, if the allegations prove to be correct...