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Last Saturday, Feb. 28, was the 51st anniversary of what is known as the 2-28 incident. This date is etched in the souls of the Taiwanese people like the word "Holocaust" is in the history of the Jewish people. On that day, a woman in Taipei, Taiwan, was arrested and beaten to death for selling cigarettes without a license. This sparked island-wide protests that soon resulted in the brutal massacre of more than 20,000 Taiwanese at the hands of the Chinese Nationalist troops. These innocent people were murdered solely because they peacefully protested against the repressive...
WASHINGTON: The people in the House say Si. By the narrowest of margins -- a single vote -- the House of Representatives voiced its approval Wednesday night for a plebiscite that may turn Puerto Rico into the 51st state. More importantly, they did it without any bill-killing riders such as a clause making English the official language of the United States -- a suggestion from Rep. Gerald Solomon that seemed calculated to offend the Spanish-speaking commonwealth. ?I?m extremely excited,? said Puerto Rico?s only congressional delegate, Carlos Romero-Barcelo...
Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry and Prose is a "book." It is the 51st installment of the Library of America series, the black-jacketed, red-white-and-blue-striped, gold-embossed collection from the people who bring you Penguin Classics. You might have read Absalom, Absalom out of one. Library of America specializes in collections of novels widely available in paperback which--when tastefully reset and bound in cloth--somehow warrant a $35 price...
McLaughlin added another assist in the 51st minute off a breakaway goal by Chijioke...
...last week, however, Greenspan had at least embraced the paradigm of the "new American husband." After his testimony on Wednesday, he and Mitchell attended a state dinner for Chinese President Jiang Zemin. Thursday was Mitchell's 51st birthday; the duo had planned to slip away to a hotel in the Virginia countryside, where they got married in April. But both were so exhausted that they decided to stay home. Alan presented Andrea with a gold necklace ("I was amazed he had the time to shop," she says). Meanwhile, Mitchell fixed dinner in their northwest Washington home. After feasting on pasta...