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...party's histrionic reaction to the election. "The biggest beneficiary of the election fiasco will be the DPP," predicts Tuan Yi-kang, a DPP legislator and strategist. Control of the legislature would grant Chen a freer hand to rewrite the constitution?something Beijing fears is an irreversible step toward formal independence...
...percent of all grades given. If this sounds familiar, that’s probably because Harvard’s anti-grade-inflation crusaders have already proposed similar caps here in Cambridge. Indeed, though the College hasn’t adopted such a policy for undergraduate grades, rumors of formal caps on grades in particular classes already abound...
...said it would support the initiative if the vote were postponed, but international pressure in favor of the deal is mounting. Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, who supports the plan, said that a split vote with the south rejecting the arrangement and the north approving it should lead to formal partition of the island, in which the north, which is currently recognized only by Ankara , gains international recognition as a separate state. - By Andrew Purvis. With reporting by Anthee Carassava An Open-Source Spy RUSSIA A Moscow court sentenced researcher Igor Sutyagin to 15 years in prison after a jury...
...anthemic impulse, they called attention to their nuanced internal rhythms, suggesting the need to listen actively with one’s ears as much as the body. Intercut by melody and vocals (lyrics, even), Vocalcity’s sonic architecture stepped above dance music’s endless formal dialogue to articulate some semblance of “actual” content—even if that essentially amounted to “I love...
...senior official describes a mission that is much closer to the Hollywood image of spy work: intense, often risky covert action against terrorists abroad. "Our job is to capture them and kill them," the official says. That means, he explains, taking action "at the direction of the President, by formal decree, clandestinely. Sometimes you're acting at his direction to change the world...