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...central figure in the propaganda battle is Zheng Chenggong, traditionally known to Westerners as Koxinga, the mentally unhinged son of a pirate, now lauded on the mainland as a "nationalist hero." After Manchu "barbarians" breached the Great Wall to establish the Qing dynasty in the 17th century, Zheng led his coastal forces in resistance before fleeing in 1661 to Taiwan, then a scarcely populated outpost supporting some Dutch traders and a small garrison, which he defeated. Shortly after, Zheng ordered his officers to execute his own son over a love affair with a nurse; they refused, so the hero killed...
...establish a habit of voting, it will be more likely that it will continue throughout life," Heintz said...
University officials have already said that they intend to establish a new committee, nicknamed “Mills Plus” after the committee that met last year headed by Professor of Business Administration D. Quinn Mills, to reopen talks on the issue of a living wage. A decision to work with the committee would be the best possible resolution for the sit-in: it is unrealistic to think that the University would ever commit to a living wage as a simple act of goodwill, and some means of revisiting the Mills report would provide the University with the necessary...
Supporters of a living wage staged the largest rally in the Yard in more than a decade yesterday, as the occupants of Mass. Hall continued their 12-day sit-in and administrators worked behind the scenes to establish a new committee to review Harvard's wage structure...
...thinking helped establish the baseline theory of negotiation," Patton says...