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...Beijing, the Taiwan problem comes amid a growing clamor for more democracy in Hong Kong. Faced with these twin challenges, China is unlikely to back down. Indeed, last week Chinese legal experts warned that there could be no further moves toward democracy in Hong Kong without Beijing's approval?a hard-line approach that China would dearly love to apply to Taiwan, too. Unhappily for the Communists, Taiwan?with its own army, constitution and democratically elected government?has a proud history of remaining defiant in the face of threats from Beijing. China's reaction to how Taiwan runs its affairs...
...special significance for sophomore defenseman Jennifer Skinner, who was facing her twin sister Andrea, a sophomore winger for Cornell, for the second straight year...
...twin bombings took the lives of at least 32 people, almost all Turkish citizens, and wounded more than 450. That was shock enough for the country, but the attacks came on the heels of similarly synchronized blasts just five days earlier at Istanbul's two main synagogues, assaults that had killed 25 and injured more than 300, also mostly Turks. Said Semih Idiz, a veteran columnist for the Aksam newspaper: "It's our 9/11...
...RETIRED. STEVE WAUGH, 38, Australia's most successful cricket-test captain, who said he wanted to leave the sport while still at the top of his game; in Sydney. Waugh, who was once dropped from the squad early in his career to make room for his twin brother, Mark, became known for a gritty, attacking style that led the Australians to 40 wins in 53 tests, including an unparalleled 16 straight victories from October 1999 to March 2001. During his 18-year career, Waugh scored 10,660 runs, second only to countryman Allan Border. Waugh's exit from the pitch...
...capital Mal? is no longer a squalid speck of dirt and disease between India and Africa but a genteel hamlet of cobbled roads, shoreline restaurants and tasteful coffeehouses. Gayoom boasts that he is both an environmental and religious champion, protecting reefs and 300,000 Muslim Maldivians from the twin dangers of global warming and the bikini-clad hordes who crowd the islands' 87 high-end resorts. Today, the 40,000 tourists who fly in every month are met by speedboat taxis moored in a coral lagoon and a banner that reads: "Welcome to the sunny side of life...