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Right now, the key test case for America's China policy is Taiwan. On March 23, it will hold a presidential vote--the first time in the 4,000 years of Chinese history that a leader will be chosen in a free election. The winner is likely to be Lee Teng-hui, the current President, who has infuriated Beijing by seeking greater international recognition for Taiwan. Beijing insists that the island is part of China and eventually it will be reintegrated. Lee, at least officially, accepts the objective of reunification, although Beijing and his political opponents at home have been...
...winning" theory becomes part of consciousness. Is that a nearby fly or a distant airplane on the edge of your vision? Is that a baby crying or a cat meowing? By the time we become aware of such images and sounds, these debates have usually been resolved via a winner-take-all struggle. The winning theory--the one that best matches the data--has wrested control of our neurons and thus of our perceptual field...
...OSCAR handicapping at the office water cooler, you don't hear many hot arguments about who's going to get the Editing award. So next Monday night, when that category is announced--"And the nominees are: Apollo 13, Babe, Braveheart, Crimson Tide and Seven"--and the winner stumbles into the spotlight to thank his mom and the director, almost no one will notice...
...winner is...not James Cromwell, who was one of the few people in "Babe" (unless there's a surprise "Babe" sweep), not Tim Roth (I didn't see "Rob Roy," did you?), perhaps Brad Pitt--he left his pretty boy roles behind, donned brown contact lenses to cover up those baby blues and played a crazy animal rights activist in "12 Monkeys." Hollywood likes to reward people who break from typecasting, but remember when Winona Ryder was supposed to win Best Supporting Actress for "The Age of Innocence?" (She won the Golden Globe, but Anna Paquin won the Oscar...
Buchanan's best hope to slow Dole was in Michigan, the only one of the four states that allocated its delegates in direct proportion to the results rather than on a winner-take-all basis...