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...understand that Taiwan is a true democracy and that our legislature, media and society are democratic and diverse. Second, we hope that Jiang would understand that the "One Country, Two Systems" policy they advocate has no market in Taiwan. They should not think that just because Hong Kong people accept such a policy, 23 million Taiwanese would also accept it. Third, we would make Jiang understand that Taiwan practices true religious freedom. While in China the Falun Gong movement has become a problem, in Taiwan it poses no problem whatsoever...
Union officials call the new contract the biggest economic gain for employees in the history of Local 26. Ninety-eight percent of union members at the meeting voted to accept the agreement...
...neurologists and sociologists) offered the usual collection of thoughts—evildoers “lack empathy,” they “rationalize” their crimes, they like to “dehumanize others.” Sometimes they have neglectful parents—sometimes they accept an intolerant ideology—sometimes they just get caught up in mob violence. Either it’s in their heads, in other words, or it’s in their social context...
...third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think is best. But not for the reasons he suggests—that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely “accepted;” we aren’t here to accept or reject—we’re here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxical your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course—and we all like...
...trial, the defense team would wait, just like the rest of us, for a ruling. In the long run, only a judge, not lawyers, can determine if the new evidence is actually important enough to merit consideration. The judge could reject the complaint outright, or he could accept it and order a brand new, drawn-out trial. In other words, he could order exactly the outcome the government is scrambling so desperately to avoid...