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...Ironically, Taiwan's Tourism Bureau has hatched a plan to keep the dictator's memory alive for the one group of people who seem genuinely interested (KMT diehards aside). Chiang-themed tour packages will target mainland Chinese, who are invariably curious about Mao's nemesis. Perhaps they could include the statue at my local park on the itinerary. In this rendition, a grandfatherly Chiang wears a traditional Chinese tunic and leans on a cane. If ever his legacy needed propping...
...PSSAS). Last year, after a history of failure, the school, under new leadership, managed to meet the federal goal for adequate yearly progress (AYP) on the state tests for the first time. If it does so again, Blaine moves off the dreaded list of failing schools, no longer a target for intensive oversight and sanctions that could include replacing the staff...
...investigative report has cited senior officials close to Syrian President Bashar Assad for complicity in the 2005 killing. The government said suspects arrested in the February bus bombings confessed to being Fatah al-Islam members working for Syria, with apparent orders to attack U.N. forces in southern Lebanon and target 36 Lebanese for assassination. Syrian officials angrily rejected the accusations, saying that the group was affiliated to al-Qaeda and that al-Absi spent three years in a Syrian prison on terrorism charges...
...become impossible to track down Hamas leaders on their cellphones. After Israeli missiles blasted clusters of Hamas militants and the family of one legislator, the Islamist militant organization cautioned its members to stop using cellphones for fear that they could be electronically pinpointed by the Israelis, who could then target them with missiles...
...This is critical. So far, the trade relationship with China has been a minor issue on the political landscape, largely because U.S. unemployment is very low. But the economy is slowing, and an election year looms. If the U.S. economy stumbles, China will be the biggest, fattest target on which to pin the blame. Meanwhile, China will likely continue recycling its massive foreign reserves, possibly making itself an even bigger target by going on a buying spree similar to Japan's in the late 1980s and early '90s: Japan buys Hollywood! Japan buys Pebble Beach! Japan buys Rockefeller Center! Remember...