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During the height of the Cold War, when the West shifted its attention and chose to ally with Beijing to counter the Soviet Union, Taiwan quietly and almost totally withdrew itself from the international scene. Throughout the 1970s and '80s, the PRC began to regain its confidence in playing a major role in global affairs, using mainly its physical power drawn from vast land and a huge population to impress the world as some tough guy whom you might hate but just can't ignore. In the meantime, Taiwan broke away from the illusion of fighting back, nearly stopped calling...
...ultimately a great deal more than the total of his brand-name likes and dislikes. High Fidelity focuses on his efforts to regain the love of an ex-girlfriend, and throughout, Rob is drawn poignantly as a man who has loved up and fallen down--enamored of women who are too beautiful and accomplished to stay with him. Hornby is as fine an analyst as he is a funny man, and his book is a true original...
...anything, the Crimson's win yesterday proved that it can overcome adversity and pressure. The Crimson's victory allowed it to regain the momentum that it lost in its disappointing third-place finish at the Wildcat Invitational two weeks...
...films by bad film-makers are to be expected. When a film written to Joe Eszterhas stinks, no eye. He stinks. But bad by talented young film- like the Hughes Brothers are truly disappointing. Perhaps they can regain their confidence and work on finding a script that itself to their style of The enormity of the plot of "Dead Presidents" only served to stifle and restrict their budding
...PART TO PLAY IN THE ethnic struggles going on in the states of the former Yugoslavia. These are localized clashes with no adverse effect beyond the states' boundaries. The U.N. should withdraw its forces without delay in order to regain the moral strength on which its effectiveness rests. SUMALYA CHAKRABORTY Rooty Hill, Australia...