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Whether or not they celebrate with a substitute party, the ex-engaged are generally eager to move on. When her engagement ended in February, Marie Elena Rigo, 32, a feng shui consultant in Santa Monica, Calif., went through a grieving process. Nonetheless, she can't imagine why people say "I'm sorry" when they hear the news. "It's sad, but there's nothing to be sorry about," she says. "I think if you can find the courage and strength to do this, people should say, 'Congratulations...
...previous elections China's attempts to influence the outcome have boomeranged. After China launched its missiles in '96?prompting the U.S. to rush two aircraft carriers to the region?voters gave Lee a landslide victory. Four years later China directed its ire at presidential candidate Chen Shui-bian, whose Democratic Progressive Party sprang from the pro-independence movement. Beijing branded him a "dangerous" separatist and threatened "a blood-soaked battle" to reunite with Taiwan. Chen was a long shot until then, but ended up winning. "China has learned to shut up," says Emile Sheng, a professor at Taiwan's Soochow...
...financial scandals; in Taipei. Liu, chairman of China Development Financial Holding Corp., was one of the most powerful figures in Taiwan's former ruling party during the 1990s. If convicted, he faces up to 16 years in jail. Liu's indictment is being taken as evidence that President Chen Shui-bian's administration is serious about its pledge to crack down on corruption...
...outbreak at Hoping was finally disclosed on April 22, only after President Chen Shui-bian received a tip-off from a friend working at another hospital. But nurse Wang told TIME she first saw patients with SARS-like symptoms at Hoping on April 9. Interviews with eight nurses who were working at Hoping at that time show just how poorly the hospital handled the outbreak. Wang recalls treating two patients with SARS-like symptoms when "all we had for protection were face masks ... I felt like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered...
...fastest way for a government official to become a victim of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is to do too little to prevent the killer disease from spreading. Perhaps that's why Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian is portraying himself as a front-line crusader in the fight against the SARS virus. Chen told local reporters that he received a phone call on April 22 from a friend, a local health-care official, warning him that Taipei Municipal Hoping Hospital was covering up an outbreak of SARS among its patients and medical staff. Chen dispatched investigators from Taiwan...