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...there wasn't much cover. But despite the gloomy weather, Douglas Paal, head of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), the U.S.'s de facto embassy on the island, was in a bright mood. For nearly an hour, Paal had sat and listened to Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian deliver his inauguration address to scores of foreign dignitaries and tens of thousands of his supporters in the square in front of the presidential office in Taipei. During his re-election campaign, Chen had repeatedly stressed Taiwan's separateness from China. While that stance helped him win votes among many...
...ailing dinosaur whose time is over. The real issue for the majority of voters in Taiwan, regardless of political belief, is not who governs but whether the election process and the vote held on March 20 were legal, objective and fair. If many of us who oppose President Chen Shui-ban could believe that his election was honest, we would accept our defeat, determined to come back again in another four years. But we think the election was tainted with fraud, misconduct and irregularities, not to mention the failed assassination attempt on the President. Many Taiwanese are angry and vexed...
Taiwan: Dodging the Bullet Taiwan's presidential election is over amid heated disputes, leaving behind it layers of suspicion and a nation divided [March 29]. We knew all along that President Chen Shui-bian might do something dramatic to change the course of the campaign in his favor. No one, however, could have imagined an assassination attempt barely 20 hours before the election. There is still much speculation that the shooting was a political stunt staged to win sympathy votes for Chen. Even if the bullets were actually fired by a would-be assassin, the fact remains that the legitimacy...
...would-be assassin might not have killed President Chen Shui-bian [March 29], but the shooter still managed to gravely wound Taiwan's democracy and deepen the divisions within Taiwanese society. If Chen staged the assassination attempt, he won a close race but lost his credibility with voters. I no longer trust and support Chen and his party. The greatest losers are not Chen's political opponents but the Taiwanese people. If this turmoil cannot be settled fairly, Taiwanese politics may become chaotic. SONG XIAOWEN Pingzhen City, Taiwan...
...Feng Shui might just have the answer. Originating around 4000 B.C. in China, this practice aims to improve quality of life through manipulating physical environments. Lynn Taylor, a Feng Shui consultant based in Watertown, analyzed the positive and negative forces at work in this Mt. Auburn storefront...