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...sham, a political stunt orchestrated by a desperate DPP to win the election (albeit a dangerous stunt?Chen was shot in the abdomen). Two years on, Taiwan's political landscape is still bathed in acid?and with two years left until Chen's term expires, there's scant prospect of this rancor easing. For a start, an $11 billion weapons deal with the U.S., designed to shore up Taiwan's defenses against China, remains bottled up in the legislature, hostage to opposition objections?not least to the hefty price...
...most observers, parental consent and notification laws offer scant opportunity for cooperation. Many in the pro-choice community consider these laws to be, in the words of Students for Choice Co-Director Rebecca P. Buckwalter ’08, “a symptom of the attack on reproductive rights, testament to widespread efforts to erode choice.” This view is hardly off the mark—many pro-life advocates have made the restriction of abortion their ultimate goal—but it ignores that supporters of parental involvement requirements generally have more immediate and agreeable ends...
...been paid in a year. Most did not have uniforms. Some had received a few weeks of training, others none at all. Though Taliban militants in the area have murdered aid workers and local politicians, torched schools and menaced teachers, the police say the U.S. has paid the area scant attention, essentially ceding territory to the insurgents. Haji Mosa Jan, the Gereshk district commander, says, "We used to patrol with one or two men" in Sangin, but now it's too dangerous to patrol at all. "We thought the coalition forces were here to fight terrorists," says...
...still has a sizable cult following—recently played the super-tiny venue for a measly $8 door charge. Meanwhile, Sunday nights see the weekly return of a well-regarded poetry night that features jazz accompaniment from the Jeff Robinson Trio, all for a scant $5. There’s even solid, well-priced pub grub—a decent burger and a mess o’ fries for $5—thanks to the restaurant upstairs. All in all, if you’re gonna head to the Common before 9:30pm or so, you might as well...
...horrendous turnovers against the Tigers’ desperation full-court press. Scott Greenman made them pay by draining a long three-pointer that hushed the crowd and brought the score to a suddenly tense 59-58. One more steal and a vaguely inevitable baseline jumper (with a scant two-tenths of a second to go) later and Princeton had completed the improbable comeback, Harvard the monumental collapse. All traces of excitement were summarily vacuumed out of the gym and the crowd shuffled towards the exits in mostly stunned silence. My (or, more accurately, our, since my roommate Joe Kerns...