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...Forging a New Identity Ma believes the time for change has come. Squished into his train seat, the Harvard-educated lawyer outlined to TIME a detailed program that he hopes will broaden Taiwan's relations with China and eventually lead to real peace. He talks of reaching a "comprehensive economic cooperation agreement" with China that would boost trade and investment across the strait. He even broaches the idea of negotiating a peace treaty with Beijing and putting in place "confidence-building measures" to scale back the military buildup on either side of the strait. "We can make cross-strait relations...
...Ying-jeou is weary. The presidential candidate for the Kuomintang, or KMT, slumps into an economy-class seat on a high-speed train bound for central Taiwan. It's 8 p.m. on a Tuesday night and he has already endured a grueling 12-hour schedule of campaign events - seminars, speeches, and a ceremony launching his latest book, Silent Courage. Yet with a crucial presidential election only days away, Ma, 57, can't afford to waste a single second. Minutes after his train arrives in the city of Taichung, Ma is whisked from the tracks into a waiting car and driven...
Bresnick seemed very optimistic about the future of the genre, which, he said, offers a multiplicity of opportunities. “I have ceased to think of the future of music like a train, or cars moving past each other. It is like a balloon, expanding in all directions...
...being the commissioner of the NBA affected your personal life? -Raphael Katz, New York CityEarly on, it affected my ride on the train, because everyone had a solution that they wanted to propose to me. Over the years, it's effected my ability to go places privately. It's very intense, it takes away form other aspects. It is difficult, to a certain measure, for kids and spouses to deal with celebrity, in terms of the demands it makes on you and the absence of privacy...
...renewed agreement, several other programs will continue to bring senior Chinese officials to the U.S. for a semester, according to Kennedy School professor Anthony Saich, who has been instrumental in setting up the Kennedy School’s program. The School of Public Health has two major programs to train officials and hospital administrators, he said...