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Power, who was promoted from lecturer to professor on July 1, is a frequent writer and speaker on human rights issues. In 2003, she won the Pulitzer Prize for “A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide,” which chronicled American responses to genocide in the Twentieth Century...
...ELECTED. MA YING-JEOU, 55, mayor of Taipei; as chairman of Taiwan's opposition Kuomintang (KMT), in the first leadership election in the party's 93-year history; in Taipei. The Hong Kong-born, Harvard-educated Ma beat out the speaker of the legislature, Wang Jin-pyng, in a contest to take the reins of the once dominant KMT, which has lost two consecutive elections to President Chen Shui-bian's pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party. The KMT, buoyed by outgoing chairman Lien Chan's recent high-profile tour of mainland China, hopes that Ma will steer the party back...
...Chengyu, chief executive officer of CNOOC, is the driving force behind its controversial takeover bid for U.S. oil giant Unocal. A fluent English speaker with a degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Southern California (he's currently a few courses shy of an M.B.A.), Fu met with TIME recently in Beijing to explain why a merger should make sense to Unocal, Washington and his own shareholders...
...recoiling are the mightiest of Republicans: the Bush family. Instead of supporting her campaign, top Republican officials have been trying to kill it, first by begging retired General Tommy Franks to enter the race and--after he turned them down--courting someone with almost zero name recognition, Florida house speaker Allan Bense, to run against Harris, who is now in her second term in the U.S. House of Representatives. Florida Governor Jeb Bush has made several recruiting calls to Bense, who headed to Washington last week where he was serenaded by a powerful trio--the President's top political adviser...
...understand just how slight a figure he appeared to be when he arrived in Washington. "Never did a President enter upon office with less means at his command," Harvard professor James Russell Lowell wrote in 1863. "All that was known of him was that he was a good stump-speaker, nominated for his availability--that is, because he had no history." His entire national political experience consisted of a single term in Congress that had come to an end nearly a dozen years earlier and two failed Senate races. He had absolutely no administrative experience and only one year...