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...Mayor Hsu Tain-tsair, a U.S.-educated economist, is readying his city for the surge. He has rehabilitated a long-neglected urban canal, allowed expat jazz bands to perform next to 300-year-old temples and supported a public arts district along Hai-An Road where, several years ago, local artists began painting giant murals on the sides of abandoned homes. One eye-popping example, called Blueprint for its rendering of an architectural drawing, spawned an adjacent pub by the same name-one of many in the district that draws late-night sidewalk crowds quaffing Belgian ales...
There are some nights on which you know you're going to be bad, and as I slink down the sleepy western reaches of Hong Kong's Hollywood Road-passing grimy shop fronts and shabby apartment buildings-I become aware that this is one of them. Because just for tonight, I'm going to mentally tear up the mildly disappointing results of a physical checkup I had three months ago, and play fast and loose with cardiovascular health. I'm headed for the Cheese Room, triglyceride levels be damned...
...Kurds' tenuous relationship with Arab Iraq is even more combustible some 47 miles south, in Kirkuk. The city is less than a two-hour drive from Arbil, but the road trip into the other Iraq is a spooky one. To the left, there's a chain of forts left over from the Iran-Iraq war, crumbling masonry monsters that look as if they were built to World War I specifications. The Hamreen Mountains to the right are practically deserted save for a series of sentry posts silhouetted along the ridge line. And waiting straight ahead at the gates of Kirkuk...
...Barack Obama faced off at the second forum. But while the candidates represented at yesterday’s forum are generally not seen as serious challengers to the GOP and Democratic heavyweights, the panelists emphasized that the outcome of the 2008 campaign is largely uncertain. “The road to the White House is long and windy and there are a lot of dead carcasses of presidents of the United States,” said Huckabee campaign manager Chip Saltsman. The advisers were optimistic that their candidates could overcome their lack of name recognition and funding...
...night, below his usual 63 percent clip…10 of the 15 goals scored during the game were unassisted, and the three Brown goals that did come off passes all came from Bears sophomore attackman Kyle Hollingsworth…The Crimson return to action this Saturday on the road at Princeton. The Tigers are currently ranked fifth in the country. It will be the second ranked opponent in three games for the Crimson, following a 15-6 loss to No. 1-ranked Cornell on Apr. 7. Start time is scheduled...