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...hope that enlightened legislators and citizens will vote down the proposed state constitutional amendment, Harvard also has employees in other states where change will come much more slowly,” Parry said. “So I think the administration’s decision to maintain the status quo is prudent and appropriate...
...ideas and a determination to pursue them has an outsize impact on the rest of us. If the great men and women of ancient times were kings and queens, nautical explorers and epic poets, now we have superpower Presidents, technological titans and religious zealots who can upend the status quo in a nanosecond. Who is that core group today? Let us introduce you to the TIME 100, the most powerful and influential people...
...ultimate aim." Currently, the Chief Executive is chosen by an 800-member electoral college that is overwhelmingly pro-Beijing, and 60% of the Legislative Council, or Legco, the territory's law-making body, is appointed or elected from business and social groups that strongly favor the status quo. The Basic Law says that setup can be changed "if there is a need...
...Asian allies. Taiwan is set to elect a President to a four-year term this weekend, and the outcome, security experts say, could have a profound effect on U.S. relations with China. Beijing considers Taiwan a renegade province but has in recent years been content with a murky status quo--one that permits de facto independence for Taiwan so long as it doesn't formally separate from China. But incumbent President Chen Shui-bian is thought to support formal independence. Four years ago, the former human-rights lawyer beat a divided opposition to take the presidency...
...Taiwan's constitution, a step that Beijing fears could move Taiwan closer to formal independence. That is why Washington, seeking to cultivate relations with China, has taken a dim view of Chen's initiatives. President Bush warned him in December not to "make decisions unilaterally to change the status quo," implying that he should reconsider the referendum. Chen has ignored him. But China may have its own problems in responding to Chen. Any revisions of the Taiwanese constitution would probably coincide with the 2008 Olympics, which China is playing host to. Belligerent acts around that time would not help China...