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...would not have to move all the way to North America to do so, and fans would be able to see all the great players in the world up close and live. "It's totally impossible," says Yomiuri's Watanabe, citing a list of reasons: higher travel costs, the shift that would be required from a system of corporate sponsorship to one of business orientation, the opposition of other clubs to the American invasion of their markets and the restrictive rules of the Japanese professional baseball convention. "The idea is nonsense and has no merit...
HUPD is switching to a 12-hour shift for its officers, effective this morning at 8 a.m., to try and alleviate the growing fatigue among officers...
...Jaime Florcruz: The most optimistic scenario is that the Chinese will simply understand these pronouncements as similar to campaign rhetoric rather than a policy shift. I've already heard one Chinese think-tank representative offer that explanation. The flip side of that, though, is to embrace the idea that you can?t take seriously the pronouncements of the U.S. president. And that's a very serious situation. When you have policy makers in Beijing trying to decipher the new Bush administration's China policy, you can't afford to be seen to flip-flop - President Bush says something...
...defense treaty with Taiwan, and our military has not worked with the Taiwanese military to prepare for such a scenario. So for the President to take a position that appears to suggest we would use our own forces to defend Taiwan against Chinese attack is a dramatic shift, and could be read that way both in Beijing and Taipei...
...claimed in his CNN interview that nothing has really changed, and that his position was consistent with those of previous administrations. But the ABC interview had certainly set off alarm bells among China watchers. The question is whether this is a president using the media to announce a significant shift in foreign policy, or an inexperienced president trying to effect a nuanced shift and overstating the case. What makes it more interesting is that there is a responsible conservative view in the administration that has been pushing for this. Bush's comments on CNN suggest that he may have overstated...