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...TIME: What have you learned about politics in your first year as President? Chen: As a country in transition, Taiwan unavoidably went through some difficulties. The strength of the opposition parties and the differing ideologies sometimes caused a bit of turmoil in the legislature. But we can say with pleasure that Taiwanese society was not chaotic, the Taiwanese people were not chaotic and the military was not chaotic. Taiwanese people have been very mature and very rational. Taiwan is a genuinely democratic country. Taiwan is not the Philippines. Taiwan is not Indonesia. Taiwan is Taiwan...
...doesn't do innocence. But he does bad guys really well. Having made his name as the latter-day master of noir with books on L.A. cops, murderers and assorted lowlifes--L.A. Confidential, The Black Dahlia--Ellroy began searching for larger game to hunt. He found it in the turmoil of the 1960s, with the assassinations of the two Kennedys and Martin Luther King Jr. and the drama of the civil rights struggle. "I lived through the '60s, with these great events roiling around me. I never partook, but I always felt there were private stories underneath the public events...
...many of the young shooters, news of another school rampage sets off bouts of emotional turmoil. Carneal became "seriously depressed" after the Columbine attack, according to Kentucky juvenile-justice commissioner Ralph Kelly. "He really took a setback from that. He felt a lot of responsibility for that happening." Kinkel also blamed himself for Columbine. On hearing the news, Kinkel told a psychologist, "I flipped out, started blaming myself." According to a friend, the March school shooting in Santee also disturbed Kinkel. Victor Cordova, incarcerated in a juvenile-treatment facility in New Mexico for shooting a schoolmate in the head...
...outset of their Harvard presidential terms, Nathan M. Pusey ’28 was charged with bringing the University together after the turmoil of World War II. Derek C. Bok had to restore continuity and rebuild infrastructure after the turmoil of the 1960s...