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When the Harvard Mountaineering Club (HMC) turned 80 this past August, it celebrated the occasion with a landmark climbing expedition in the Tien Shan Mountains in Kyrgyzstan. Now, the group hopes to carve its niche in posterity with some tributes of mountainous proportions. The club, which was the first American group to explore the Central Borkoldoy range of these mountains, is allowed to name all nine peaks they mounted, in accordance with mountaineering tradition. The names they have tentatively assigned range from Peak Harvard to Peak Adventure—with one peak bearing a title that holds sentimental value...
...Coast Guard says the vessel is simply taking the quickest route home. The Canadians claim that the strait is an internal waterway, and they see the U.S. insistence on entering without permission as an insult to the country's sovereignty. "The Americans are abusing us," declares Jean Chrétien, external affairs minister in the opposition Liberal Party's shadow cabinet...
...Hong Kong person running Hong Kong?which is a cornerstone of "one country, two systems"?even if China's leaders actually call the shots. But they don't know the new Chief Executive as well as they would like. "He has to prove himself to Beijing," says James Tien, head of the pro-business Liberal Party...
...Hong Kong's democracy is still immature, and it has shown. The candidates were civil, pragmatic, unwilling to waste time?the virtues that make Hong Kong great. The flip side of all that, however, was a tendency not to probe issues deeply, a certain lack of political seriousness. James Tien, head of the pro-business Liberal Party and textile scion, maintained that democracy really means affluence of the kind Hong Kong has come to expect and that the needs of the hour are stability and tending of the economy. "Does having one man-one vote give you that good life...
...druthers system. "I'll take a jacket from my closet and think, I wish this had a looser fit or different pockets," she says. "My design inspiration comes from my own closet, my own thighs, my own life. It's business, but it's personal." --By Ellen Tien...