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...That all seems a long time ago now," says General Lue Ye-tien, Tuan's former right-hand man. Tuan died in 1980 but Lue still cuts a sprightly figure at 85 and relishes the peace of his twilight years after a lifetime of fighting. A towering chap with a ramrod back and a vaguely wintery air, he retains a formidable presence even as he potters about the twisting rows of tea bushes swaddling the slopes below his Chinese-style villa. Further down, the mountain falls away in an undulating patchwork of tea, tobacco, fruit trees and stands of thick...
...Tsai holds the patent on slow opening scenes, and this one doesn't disappoint. We see a man (Miao Tien) at a kitchen table doing nothing for a full minute. Then he gets up, goes outside and returns to his nothingness at the table. Four minutes. And that's the last we see of him; he dies, off camera, soon after. We're then introduced to his son, Hsiao-kang (Lee Kang-sheng), who sells watches in Taipei. Days after his father's death a young woman, Shiang-chyi (Chen Shiang-chyi), buys a dual-time watch from him before...
Like the portfolio of publications he controls, newspaper magnate Conrad Black transcends national categorization. Canadian-born and raised, he divides most of his time between Britain and the U.S. Earlier this year, motivated in part by bitterness over Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's refusal in 1999 to let him accept a British peerage, he renounced his Canadian citizenship. Two weeks ago, in a move that signaled the extent to which his focus has moved beyond Canada, Black announced that his holding company Hollinger would sell its 50% remaining stake in the country's National Post, which...
...Sure, there were the usual gaffes - addressing Jean Chrétien as "amigo," spelling out A-I-D-S and declining to answer questions "neither in French, nor in English, nor in Mexican" - but that stuff is charming now, right? Bush's assignment, along with the other 33 national leaders in attendance, was a pretty easy one - meet, get to know each other, congratulate each other on the strength of their varying degrees of democracy, and plan, definitely, to have a Free Trade Area of the Americas up and running...
...without making trouble, without getting any of that tear gas in his eyes, and without needing Colin Powell to correct anything he had said. The bar was pretty low, not just for Bush but for the whole affair, and aside from some snide remarks Chrétien made about democracy in Haiti - and Chavez's near-total lack of effort to pretend he likes the U.S. - everybody got along fine, and promised to get along even better next time...