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...Forging a New Identity Ma believes the time for change has come. Squished into his train seat, the Harvard-educated lawyer outlined to TIME a detailed program that he hopes will broaden Taiwan's relations with China and eventually lead to real peace. He talks of reaching a "comprehensive economic cooperation agreement" with China that would boost trade and investment across the strait. He even broaches the idea of negotiating a peace treaty with Beijing and putting in place "confidence-building measures" to scale back the military buildup on either side of the strait. "We can make cross-strait relations...
...Ying-jeou is weary. The presidential candidate for the Kuomintang, or KMT, slumps into an economy-class seat on a high-speed train bound for central Taiwan. It's 8 p.m. on a Tuesday night and he has already endured a grueling 12-hour schedule of campaign events - seminars, speeches, and a ceremony launching his latest book, Silent Courage. Yet with a crucial presidential election only days away, Ma, 57, can't afford to waste a single second. Minutes after his train arrives in the city of Taichung, Ma is whisked from the tracks into a waiting car and driven...
...fractious state government. His successor is Lt. Governor David Paterson - Spitzer's diametric opposite. With his mellow voice, humor and self-deprecation, Paterson has become a popular speaker in New York's political circles. "He has a winning personality," says State Senator Bill Perkins, a Democrat whose 30th District seat Paterson used to occupy. "He's very funny, very witty, and he makes an effort to not just get the job done but to make people comfortable." According to the New York Times, Paterson once jokingly told a gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art of the demands...
...some ways, Paterson seems a born politician; in others, he's anything but. On one hand, he comes from political stock - the New York State Senate seat he assumed in 1985 was formerly held by his father, Harlem political leader Basil Paterson. On the other, he is legally blind (a disability that did not prevent him from completing the New York City Marathon in 1999). When the Columbia University and Hofstra Law School graduate became the State Senate's minority leader in 2002, it marked the first time an African American assumed that position. As governor, Paterson will...
...budget gap of more than $4 billion, a sagging economy and an atmosphere beset by partisan gridlock. His temperament suited the state legislature, where he supported stem-cell research and alternative energy and championed female- and minority-owned businesses. Will it play as well in the chief executive's seat? "David Paterson is going to be overwhelmed. He's never had any executive experience whatsoever," says Wayne Barrett, who reports on state politics for the Village Voice. "He's an incredibly congenial guy, and a very bright guy, but I think this is going to be just an enormous challenge...