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Thus far U.S. opposition has done little to dampen Chen's enthusiasm for an island-wide referendum. For Chen, who is coming to the end of his final term as president, it's an issue of legacy, says Loh Chih-cheng, a political science professor at Soochow University in Taipei. "He's pushing to make his name in history," Loh says. (Loh also notes that all this could be the President's canny understanding of voter math in Taiwan: a referendum in 2004 helped get out the vote during chen's re-election campaign.) The opposition Kuomintang (KMT) has accused...
Faust will have to begin planning for a University-wide capital campaign that was put on hold during the stormy tenure of Lawrence H. Summers. Faust said in an interview with The Crimson this spring that Harvard needs "to undertake a planning process of academic planning in all the schools that would provide the foundation for a campaign"—a task in which deans play an essential role. Without permanent leaders to oversee the process at their respective schools, academic planning could be put off for another year, delaying the capital campaign further...
More men than women tend to be independent voters, though they span a wide array of age ranges...
...results stand in stark contrast to a district-wide parent survey in June that found that parents opposed extending the school day from six to eight hours by a nearly two-to-one margin. (The latter survey did not disaggregate data for the two schools that have added class time, the King and the Fletcher-Maynard Academy...
...interpreter's New York City hotel room Tuesday afternoon trying food on for size, Kobayashi could open his mouth wide enough to accommodate a hot dog by itself, but an attempt to push through a bun resembled a Mack truck trying to enter a home garage. Two visits to an acupuncturist in the city, painkillers and anti-inflammatory pills lessened the pain - but not the shame - of his current condition. "I'm very embarrassed as an athlete and as a competitive eater that I didn't take care of my body and that I'm at this point now," Kobayashi...