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...challenging Beijing-anointed incumbent Donald Tsang to be Hong Kong's next Chief Executive-even though he cannot win. The vote, on March 25, will be cast by an 800-member Election Committee that is largely pro-Beijing, and so pro-Tsang. Leong, 49, spoke with TIME's Peter Ritter about why he is running, Hong Kong's relationship with mainland China, and his sartorial trademark...
Martin Scorsese's The Departed, which last week won four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, is an adaptation of Infernal Affairs, the 2002 Hong Kong thriller about triad gangs and police moles. Alan Mak, who co-wrote and co-directed Infernal Affairs, spoke with TIME's Peter Ritter about Scorsese, cops, and what should have...
Political life has been unsettling too. Software failures and gaffes committed by the city's election commission bollixed last Nov. 7's election. The upshot: hundreds of perplexed and angry voters couldn't cast ballots. In January, days after moving into the Governor's office, the ever smiling Bill Ritter--a Democrat, of all things--stood accused of reneging on a campaign pledge, socking union leaders by vetoing a bill that would have made it easier to organize workers...
...went as, one by one, I met the exuberant and slightly eccentric Democrats of Colorado--the hosts of the next Democratic National Convention, to be held in Denver in 2008. Each had a big personality and a distinctive personal history. Ritter, for example, was one of 12 children who grew up poor on a wheat farm; in 1986 he and his wife made a midlife decision to spend three years as Catholic missionaries in Africa, working at a nutrition center in Zambia. Then there were the "Salazar Boys." U.S. Senator Ken Salazar and his brother John, a member of Congress...
...asked Barbara O'Brien, the candidate for Lieutenant Governor, about the rampant individuality in the room, and she said, "I doubt you'd find a Democratic ticket like us anywhere else in the country. Bill [Ritter] is pro-life, and I'm not even a politician. I ran a children's advocacy group and took positions that upset Democrats in the past--like, I testified in favor of a limited, targeted school-voucher program. But that's the way it is out here in the West. People like their politicians independent...