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...eight years in the political wilderness turned out to be a blessing, Hu said to me, because it forced the party to reinvent itself - for the better. No longer did the KMT regard running Taiwan as its birthright; instead it started to address people's needs and concerns, and to earn, rather than command, their respect. The core policy of reunification with the mainland under the KMT, always a far-fetched idea, was put on the backburner. And old-guard mainlanders, who had run the party for so long, realized they had to give way to younger leaders such...
Memories - with their power to seduce, to reinvent, to torment - are what fuel A Partisan's Daughter, Louis de Bernières's quiet yet moving new novel set in London in 1979, during the strikebound Winter of Discontent. As recounted by Chris years later, it's an aching tale of love and loss in which the protagonists embody the profound but fragile relationships strangers can build and the pain of intimacy corrupted. "A previous draft was about sexual obsession, and it left a rather bad taste in the mouth," says De Bernières, who grew up in Surrey...
...enough for the best on the team. “We’re working with her more on being a strong contact hitter,” Allard says. “more line drives, more hard ground balls, more base hits, draw more walks, develop her eye more, reinvent her swing a little bit.” As Murphy works on her offensive game, Harvard strives to defend its title. If last season is any indicator, the two outcomes are closely connected. “Her impact has affected the team in a number of ways...
While you're struggling to find the appropriate original inscription to convey your feelings, however, Internet users across the U.S. are deciding not to reinvent the wheel, searching instead for existing love poems, perhaps to lift a few lines for expediency's sake. Starting the last week in January, Internet searches for "love poems" begin their yearly climb toward a spike in Valentine's Day week...
...There are limits in politics. You can get away with changing a position -perhaps Romney really did see the light on abortion, not just the results of an Iowa focus group - but you can't just reinvent yourself out of whole cloth. You can go negative on your opponents, but it's a stretch to attack them for taking the same positions - on immigration, most notably - that you used to take, especially when you keep getting caught having illegals tend your garden. The sheer cynicism is driving Romney's Republican opponents nuts. He is wildly unpopular among his peers...