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...that day last August was almost too horrible to contemplate. "We have your sister," they said. "She stinks. Pay $5,000 if you want her back in one piece." Huang's first instinct was to avoid trouble and fork over the cash. But times were tough for the Taipei slum-dweller, and the most she could rustle up was $500?a sum the kidnappers gruffly rejected. Scared and desperate, she went to the police. They refused to help...
...Thanks in part to the public outcry that followed Huang's struggle, government officials have been fighting to clean up Taiwan's funeral business. Regulations that Chen Jeaw-mei, Taipei's director of social affairs, plans to pass on soon to the city council for approval include, for example, forcing funeral company operators to publish their prices ahead of time and to submit to regular evaluations. Some hospitals in major cities now require morticians to enter lotteries to determine which of them are given access to family members of critically ill patients...
...That endowment is the sum of thousands of funds, which are listed in the “Fund and Gift Supplement to the Financial Report”—700 pages of small print that lists every gift from the Lamont Library endowment fund to the Taipei Paper Factory Book fund...
...exporter. And when you're exporting music, movies and TV shows, other countries are interested in what you think and who you are. The upshot is a state that confidently and pragmatically goes about its business--even though much of that business is on the mainland. To wander through Taipei or tour the countryside is to realize that the hoary topic of reunification is not so much an issue as an irrelevance, a political parlor game fraught with linguistic and semantic tricks played out in Beijing, Washington and Taipei...
...provide correct answers to teachers' queries. The takeaway from his childhood successes: as long as you have boned up on whatever subject is at hand, you will succeed. That principle carried him through a successful career as a lawyer and eventually stints as a legislator and as mayor of Taipei. Despite Chen's success, the grasping of a social climber is also detectable in his tireless rise through the meritocracy. "What Chen lacks is emotional intelligence," says columnist Hu. "He doesn't have that. How can you be a great leader without that kind of emotional center...