A rediscovered documentary of the Saisiat tribe's Pasta'ay celebration made during the Japanese occupation shows how well the tribe has maintained its traditions over the past 70 years
By Noah Buchan
Ominataro (朱秀春) slouches in his chair and stares at the blank projector screen in front of him in this 100-seat auditorium on a recent Saturday morning in a community hall in Ta-ai (大隘村), Hsinchu County. The sun shines on the village - nestled amongst dense vegetation at the bottom of a mountain range. He says an occasional word to the man sitting beside him, but otherwise concentrates on the white space in front of him.

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Carla Bruni is a libertarian ex-supermodel heiress who says monogamy is boring. Nicolas Sarkozy is the right-wing French president who wants to make her his third wife
By Angelique Chrisafis
Carla Bruni, the Italian ex-supermodel turned folk-singer, is madly, passionately, giddily in love with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. "She blushes when he comes into the room," says a friend. When she's not with him and the camera crews she is admiring him from afar. "She's very happy," says Colombe Pringle, who has known Bruni since editing French Vogue in the 1990s. "When Sarkozy announced the prospect of marriage during his new year's press conference, I called her to congratulate her while he was still speaking. She said: 'I'm sitting here watching the president on TV. He's amazing.'"

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Martin Luther King Jr's birthday is celebrated tomorrow. Forty years after his assassination, his legacy raises hopes, anxiety and fatalism about current events
By Jim Dwyer
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Troy Parfitt, a Canadian national, spent nine years teaching English in Taiwan. This memoir demonstrates just how little he learned from his time here
By Bradley Winterton
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Martin Amis has created a beautiful language to talk about the events of Sept. 11, and Islamic extremism in general. The question: Why should we listen?
By Tim Adams
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