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...person would tell a friend or relative about the money he was earning, and that person would convince the next." Indeed, there is only one Afinsa agent in Dosbarrios, and everyone knows him. "Raúl Rodríguez is the brother of my husband's friend," says Rosario Suárez, 35. "At first I was skeptical, but he came to our house, and I talked to other people who had invested with him, and I was persuaded." Rodríguez describes himself as "one of the victims" and says that most of his local clients have been "reasonable...
...aides, his son-in-law and the First Lady, Chen's public-approval rating has plunged below 20%. Faced with the threat of revolt from his own supporters, Chen last week beat a strategic retreat, announcing he would hand over day-to-day running of the government to Premier Su Tseng-chang. "He knows he's in political trouble," says Emile Sheng, a political-science professor at Soochow University in Taipei. "He's trying to do everything he can to remain in office...
...That, too, is working?so far. By forming an alliance with Su, Chen's withdrawal from domestic politics stabilized support from his own Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), says Sheng. And while opposition Kuomintang (KMT) lawmakers are demanding a recall of Chen, the party doesn't have enough support in Taiwan's parliament to secure the two-thirds vote necessary to push through a recall motion. That could change if Chen or his wife become directly linked to illegal activities, notes Sheng, which might cause a critical mass of DPP members to join calls for his ouster. "The DPP can tolerate...
...Silk, directed by Su Chao-bin, tries a sciencey twist on the ghostly-kid genre spawned in Japan by The Ring and imitated by movie industries from Hong Kong's to Hollywood's. Beginning with that favorite Asian movie trope - sending some disposable Caucasian to his violent death - Silk focus on a Taipei research project that has managed, through some anti-gravity gizmo called the Menger Sponge, to capture the ghost of a nine-year old boy. Guess what? The death-child escapes...
...film, a Taiwanese thriller called Silk started a half-hour late, but the audience didn't care. They applauded director Su Chao-pin as he entered the auditorium with his cast, applauded the 30-sec. film (of steps emerging from beneath the sea and up to the stars, to the swirling, twinkling music of Camille Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals), snapped more photos when the Festival logo appeared on screen and stayed through nearly two hours of conventional ghost-story frissons. When the audience walked out at 2:40, they looked ready to go partying...