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...world accept Beijing's characterization of Taiwan, and, when energized, the PRC can call in overwhelming support to marginalize Taipei." Indeed, the U.S.'s vocal opposition to the referendum is being seen in Taiwan as more evidence of the influence China now wields. "Beijing now realizes the shortest route to Taipei is through Washington," says political commentator and former diplomat Loh I-cheng. "They are telling the U.S., 'It was you who spoiled this child, you should spank...
...quick to complain about how Harvard draws the strength out of us when the real leech lurks within. It takes a certain level of stubbornness to reject our common compulsion to activity for even the shortest while. But if we were able to muster this up and deny ourselves freneticism in the summer, we might find that its output would be returned to us, interest paid, during the rest of the year...
They use up vacation time, obsess over schedules and plot the shortest walking path between theaters. And for ten days each September, they disappear into the dark for hours at a time, emerging dazed or euphoric, tearful or bored before heading back to do it again. True festival junkies see three, four, even six movies a day, often eschewing the blockbusters-to-be in favor of films that won't make it to DVD, much less mainstream theaters. We asked a few veterans about their tight schedules, the days before advance ticket sales, and the rush they get from...
...York at Buffalo even suggested that Boeing would be out of the jetliner business by 2013--the year the largest 787 model, the 787-10, is now set to launch. The 787-8 will fly from Paine Field in Everett, Wash., later this month to begin the shortest flight-test schedule in the company's history...
...fashioned, hand-drawn way, looks surprisingly spiffy on the big screen. It's rated PG-13 (for brief frontal nudity), but vulgarity was never the envelope The Simpsons pushed. Its goal was density, comic congestion, the vacuum-packing of cool gags and grotesque-sympathetic characters into the shortest span possible...