Word: ying
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...ELECTED. MA YING-JEOU, 55, mayor of Taipei; as chairman of Taiwan's opposition Kuomintang (KMT), in the first leadership election in the party's 93-year history; in Taipei. The Hong Kong-born, Harvard-educated Ma beat out the speaker of the legislature, Wang Jin-pyng, in a contest to take the reins of the once dominant KMT, which has lost two consecutive elections to President Chen Shui-bian's pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party. The KMT, buoyed by outgoing chairman Lien Chan's recent high-profile tour of mainland China, hopes that Ma will steer the party back...
...anymore. The South is finally where hip-hop's at. These days, the biggest acts on Billboard's urban charts and on MTV are Southerners like the Ying Yang Twins, Ludacris, Mike Jones and, of course, Atlanta duo Outkast, which last year became the first hip-hop act to win a Grammy for Album of the Year. The cutting edge of Southern music: a danceable, rapid-fire, bass-heavy rap (frequently blended with R&B) called crunk, fine-tuned and marketed by loud, gold-toothed former DJ Lil Jon and popularized partly through his massive and spectacularly vulgar...
...artists who got the most airplay last year were from the South. These days, the rappers from the lower states have clothing lines, accessories, even branded beverages (Lil Jon's energy drink is called Crunk Juice), not to mention alliances with the biggest pop artists. The Ying Yang Twins have collaborated with Britney Spears, and Destiny's Child commissioned Atlanta rapper T.I. on a recent single. Lil Jon has produced big crunk hits for Atlantans Usher (Yeah!) and Ciara (Goodies...
...Australian public is less equivocal. Already there is strong support for Chen's claim for asylum; ordinary people can readily identify a (crazy) brave act and seem grateful for Chen's heads-up based on his allegations of an army of Chinese informants operating in their country. Ambassador Fu Ying offers the idea that Chen is an opportunist who has chosen to remain in Australia for lifestyle reasons. It's more plausible, however, to see Chen as someone taking an enormous personal risk, acting out of conscience and rejecting life and work under an authoritarian state. Whatever his motives, Chen...
...Staff writer Ying Wang can be reached at yingwang@fas.harvard.edu...