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...Chan says she's not looking for a showdown, either. "I have every confidence that if you give us universal suffrage, we will not make a mess of it," she says. "If we do it well, maybe it will convince the central government there's nothing to fear." That's unlikely in the immediate future. But with a popular moderate like Chan as the face of Hong Kong democracy, Beijing will have to work much harder to find objections...
...saved for a rainy day. And even if the UC were within its rights to pinch pennies, it’s difficult to imagine what exactly a $63,791.21 rainy day would look like. Perhaps, the UC’s bean-counters will argue, this month’s showdown with University Hall is exactly the sort of cataclysm that savings ought to provide...
...used to getting,” Quincy HoCo Co-Chair Jane Fang ’08 said in an interview last night. “We’re hearing so many conflicting reports on all sides and we’re stuck in the middle of this showdown...
...fast-moving, tough-talking Sarkozy cannot afford to delay the special regime reform for calmer times without damaging the reputation and credibility he has built on being a man of action. That means the highest-stakes showdown of his administration is all but inevitable. "If he achieves this reform by overcoming big protests, he'll have satisfied the 50% of public opinion approving the measure, thrill fellow conservatives, and re-establish himself as the formidable leader who inspires the French," says Reynié. "If he fails, he's in serious trouble. The reform movement will be stalled; the left revived...
...Campaigning for Sunday's vote, all the parties have rolled out familiar themes in the hope of stirring up the electorate. The unsolved mystery of Yushchenko's dioxin-poisoning ordeal during his presidential showdown with Yanukovych has been raised by the President's allies. But one of his opponents, Socialist Interior Minister Vasyl Tsushko, accuses the President's men of poisoning him during the summer. Both sides have been doing their damnedest to bring people back to Kiev Independence Square, the heart of the Orange Revolution. But the enthusiasm of that moment has long given way to disenchantment and cynicism...