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...called for an analysis of the party's options for requesting a recount. But most of all, he wanted to know why one of Taiwan's poorest counties, which had never failed to vote KMT, had turned against the party. The defectors of Yunlin helped Chen to his paper-thin victory margin and "stripped me of everything, even my underwear," said Lien, according to KMT legislator Hsu Shu-po, who was present...
Many makeup pros are literally spray-painting their clients' faces, applying a thin layer of makeup to cover the surface with thousands of tiny dots (think ink-jet printers) that conceal flaws and don't smudge. Others are working more closely than ever with lighting directors, hiding extra lights in cabinets and other secret places on a set so actors' faces are bathed in more brightness and look softer. "I am always telling Christine, 'Keep your chin up. Stay in the light,'" says Bunch...
...exact time specified, a man with dark-smudged eyes and the thin tracings of an Islamic beard approached me. Mohammed, 24, looked strong and loose limbed beneath a plain tan shirt and dark pants and proved surprisingly candid about his clandestine career. He said he had a university degree and a regular job as an accountant, and a wife who blessed his potential death prior to their wedding six months before...
EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE VERY POLITICALLY AWARE, YOUR MATERIAL IS NOT OVERTLY POLITICAL. YOU DON'T DO JOKES ABOUT THE PRESIDENT. IS THAT GOING TO CHANGE? No. I don't like topical humor. It bothers me. I don't enjoy it. I find it thin and superficial and rather easy to do. I don't like easy targets, and I don't like sounding like everyone else...
...ELECTED. CHEN SHUI-BIAN, 53, President of Taiwan; by a razor-thin margin, just one day after he was shot in the abdomen while riding in a motorcade. The opposition Nationalist Party, which until the shooting had been narrowly favored to win, called for the election to be annulled and suggested that the assassination attempt may have been a final-hour campaign tactic...