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...presidential election. Ma's victory is a landmark development that has the potential to not just change Taiwan but transform its fraught relationship with China. For decades after its leadership fled to Taiwan in 1949, the KMT regarded the island merely as a transitional base from which to reclaim the mainland. The KMT, an outsider, ruled Taiwan in an authoritarian manner, and was out of touch with local folk, who identified themselves as Taiwanese, not Chinese. In 2000, the KMT paid for its arrogance when it was stunningly - and deservedly - ousted from office by the upstart DPP, which drew strength...
...today's booming luxury-watch market, it takes more than a pretty product to keep up with the industry's top players. Concord's new C1 (above) is the brand's impressive attempt to reclaim a spot in watchmaking's top tier. Over the course of its history?the company marks its 100th anniversary this year?Concord has produced timepieces for world leaders and, owing in part to its advancements with quartz watches in the 1970s, has been at the vanguard of engineering. But in recent years, public perception of the brand has veered toward the staid side of traditional...
...permanent collections dwindle as nations reclaim objects, he argued, these museums will no longer be able to display the same gamut of different cultural artifacts side by side, losing a vital resource for prolonged educational comparison...
Additionally, Cuno maintains that the countries seeking to reclaim artifacts do not always have the best interests of the objects in mind. He contends that several young governments, such as those in Greece and Turkey, see both antiquities and export laws as ways to forge a national cultural identity...
...reversal that free speech advocates called a pivotal victory for First Amendment rights, the federal judge who shuttered the muckraking website Wikileaks last month ruled Friday that it could reclaim its Web address in the United States. The decision, however, raises another question: did a band of tech-savvy Internet mavericks manage to outmaneuver...