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...state: Is Chen Shui-bian good enough, wise enough, man enough, to take Taiwan where it deserves to go? The helicopter takes flight, pushing the President back into his silver seat. He looks even smaller than his 1.65 m. His wire-frame glasses and white windbreaker and silver-gray slacks make him appear delicate and vulnerable. You can't help noting the mission ahead of him?leading Taiwan through a treacherous geopolitical landscape while propping up a floundering economy and fending off hostile domestic opposition?and wonder if this retiring, eager-eyed former maritime lawyer can really remake himself...
...provide answers, Constantino and his staff put in place a program called ParentLink. Through a website and a voice-mail system, parents can get up-to-date information about their child's grades, homework, attendance and even the details of that day's lessons. Yvonne Gray says, "ParentLink fosters communication" with her daughter. "It gives me something specific to ask her about." Helen Marmoll, after checking ParentLink, stunned her son by asking why he hadn't made it back to class on time after a doctor's appointment...
...lined up like talk-show guests in the offices of Warner Bros. Records. Stipe's bald, Buck's a little paunchy, and Mills has that unsettling Bob Costas thing going on where he appears both boyish and middle-aged. Great rock groups don't usually stick around for the gray hairs to come in; they're supposed to burn out, fade away, hey hey, my my, well whatever, never mind. In fact in 1998, when R.E.M. was finishing its last album, Up (its first without original drummer Bill Berry, who retired after recovering from a brain aneurysm and lives...
...titans of technological playtime have but one chance a year to get together and blow all that moolah on stuff like this: brash booths, brain-bashing music, epilepsy-inducing lights, top celebrities, parties that won't quit (the Sony party, whose last headliners were Lenny Kravitz and Macy Gray, is legendary for its Studio 54-esque exclusiveness) and hundreds of eye-popping models dressed as cheerleaders and space aliens. No wonder they throw this shindig in La-La land...
...cameras poking out from bushes. At the height of the bubble it was worth more than $25 million. Liens were filed against this property when his firm went bust in the early 1990s. Obara continued to frequent the house up until his arrest, letting it slide, like some Dorian Gray portrait of Japan's national psyche, into a state of advanced decay, with rust flaking off the exterior ironwork and bricks crumbling from the walls. A Maserati, a Bentley and an early 1960s Aston Martin are parked in the yard. The cars have flat tires. There is trash everywhere. Keeping...