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...river from Nanjing to Shanghai is wide, one mile across, and the boat traffic has increased exponentially: barges, tugs, dredging boats, passenger ferries, tankers, oceangoing liners and container ships. There are so many vessels that the traffic splits up, as on a highway: downstream vessels keep to the left of the stream, upstream vessels keep to the right-hand side, as the chaos of China's interior inexorably gives way to the more ordered march to prosperity of the coastal regions...
...look at these things like other epic legal battles. There are days when you have progress. This was a step backwards." Says the official: "These judges are wrong, and their decision, if it were binding, that's not what the law is. We filed a broad case involving a wide variety of unlawful action...
...Making the most of the rules of pretrial discovery, Klayman has subpoenaed such past and present Clinton insiders as George Stephanopoulos and Paul Begala--as well as such bewildered small fry as Begala's assistant--subjecting them to protracted depositions at which his questions are, to say the least, wide-ranging. (He demanded that one recent target disclose the name of his cats.) In his free time Klayman is also suing his mother, claiming she owes him $40,000 for nursing care he provided for his late grandmother...
...also increasingly a Taiwanese government. The tight control by the mainlanders who came over with Chiang in 1949 has vanished, replaced by a feisty, wide-open democracy. Polls indicate that 83% of the population identify themselves either as Taiwanese and Chinese or as Taiwanese. Only 16.3% say they are simply Chinese. As for the future, 86% of Taiwan's people favor holding on to the status quo and putting off unification. The status quo, as they see it, includes efforts to conduct foreign relations and join international organizations, which stoke China's fury...
Past midnight now, and Jesus arrives. Jesus ("Chucho") Valdes is the greatest jazz pianist in Cuba, perhaps one of the greatest pianists in the world. He's a tall man, 5 in. north of 6 ft., and wide-bodied. He is casually dressed tonight, clad in an untucked purple shirt, jeans and Fila sneakers. He has played in the U.S. before, but this month he is embarking on his first sizable Stateside tour, one of the most extensive by any Cuban performer since the embargo began in 1962. Valdes has a new solo CD to promote, Bele Bele...