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...Kuomintang party (KMT), which Lee led before being expelled in 2001 for supporting the opposition Democratic Progressive Party, has downplayed Lee's gimmick. "No matter who Lee Teng-hui likes to dress as?be it a clown or comic character?that's his choice," shrugs KMT legislator Lin Yi-shih. "I believe it has a limited impact on young voters." Possibly Lee could pick up senior votes: Edajima is also an octogenarian...
...It’s rather like kindergarten, where you actually get to do things and ask as many questions as you want,” said Yi...
Nike is determined not to repeat the mistake. It has already signed China's next NBA prospect, the 7-ft. Yi Jianlian, 18, who plays for the Guangdong Tigers. And the company has resolved problems that dogged it a few years ago. Nike has cleaned up its shop floors. It cut its footwear suppliers in China from 40 to 16, and 15 of those sell only to Nike, allowing the company to monitor conditions more easily. At Shoetown in the southern city of Guangzhou, 10,000 mostly female laborers work legal hours stitching shoes for $95 a month--more than...
...bothering with any introduction. “Son, I’m thirty / I only went with your mother cause she’s dirty,” Shaun Ryder enters, immediately launching listeners into the Mondays’ bent, polluted world, where joyous “Yippee-yippee-yi-yi-yay!”s stolen from Patti LaBelle are followed by “I had to crucify some brother today!” Properly indoctrinated, we progress through a surreal encounter with the police (“God’s Cop”) a tribute...
...health and lack of information could have severe implications." Nor is the problem confined to Vietnam: many of Asia's governments appear slow to apply fully the lessons of openness and cooperation from last winter's major outbreak. "There are problems with transparency, difficulties sharing scientific information," says Dr. Yi Guan, an avian-flu expert at the University of Hong Kong. "We can't stop the virus without regional cooperation...