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...pressed ahead with a plan to build a mostly underground highway from Central to Causeway Bay through reclaimed land. Chu spent nearly $1 million of his own money on a legal challenge to the scheme, and in January 2004, the Court of Final Appeal struck down the government's ambitions. The judges deemed the waterfront "a natural heritage" to be trifled with only when there is "an overriding public need." Part of the land for that project has already been reclaimed, but the government is blocked from reclaiming the other 26 hectares...
...Prior to this visit to Saigon, I spent five weeks in Kuala Lumpur, a city I first got to know in 1973 when it struck me as a sleepy, no-hope backwater. Today, Malaysia has raced far ahead of Vietnam, which is still hobbled by corruption, bureaucracy and ugly politics. Vietnam lost a generation of progress because it did not spawn leaders like Malaysia's Mahathir Mohamad to set the country's economic course...
Starter Jason Brown made the most of his Fenway Park pitching debut, hurling five innings of four-hit ball. It was an auspicious first career collegiate start for the sophomore, who yielded just two earned runs and struck out five...
Each team struck once more to push the score to 7-3, a margin finalized when Wilson gobbled up a grounder at third base and heaved it to first for the final out. Then, Harvard players stormed the Fenway infield...
Three of the four Crimson runs came in the first inning. Stefanchik led off the game with a bunt single and scored when Sabin cracked a two-run homer off the first pitch thrown to her. After Kerper struck out, Winkeller hit a single to shallow left, barely beating a quick throw to first. Senior Cecily Gordon drove her home with an RBI double...