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...leeway. In one of his first moves, Terenzio called a meeting to stress that "reporters never say what they think, only what they know" and to urge that all government statements be attributed to their source, standard practice in the West. Within two weeks, "they were practically attributing the weather report," Terenzio says. "I had to tell them to cool...
...rain was heavy, and there wasn't much cover. But despite the gloomy weather, Douglas Paal, head of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), the U.S.'s de facto embassy on the island, was in a bright mood. For nearly an hour, Paal had sat and listened to Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian deliver his inauguration address to scores of foreign dignitaries and tens of thousands of his supporters in the square in front of the presidential office in Taipei. During his re-election campaign, Chen had repeatedly stressed Taiwan's separateness from China. While that stance helped...
...that's right: the Olympic calendar may say Aug. 27, but for the planning-obsessed Korzeniowski, "it actually starts a week before." The 50-km race is so grueling, he says, that it will punish those who don't prepare fully during that last week, from tracking the weather in preparation for the heat and humidity to making race weight (the 1.68-m-tall Korzeniowski's is a trim 62 kg) to readying the right electrolyte-replacement drinks (he'll consume 4 L of those and 4 L of water). "There are no surprises," he says...
...hovering over the horizon like a fiery orange UFO as Dartboard made his way to 6 p.m. Gov. section. There was a note on the door: “Section will be held outside, so we can take advantage of the great weather!” Thinking the exclamation point was a bit too much, Dartboard made his way outside, anticipating staying awake for all of section (for once) thanks to the anti-soporific effects of the cool evening breeze...
...sanguine. Toshiba, for example, sold $1.3 billion worth of goods in China last year, so "obviously we are concerned about a drop in sales," says Junichi Nagaki, a spokesman for Toshiba. But he notes that global operations, such as Samsung, Sony and Toshiba, are diversified internationally and can weather slower sales growth in China...