Drumbeat of war muffled by sound of marching feet
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Anti-war protesters join a demonstration against war on Iraq in London yesterday. Millions of people took to the streets of towns and cities across the globe to demonstrate against a looming US-led war on Iraq in the biggest protests since the Vietnam War.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Chou to sue Supreme Court judges over graft conviction
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PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Puppet master pulls the strings
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Dutch puppeteer Robin Ruizendaal is hoping his exhibition at the National Palace Museum will help Taiwan preserve its artistic heritage.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF ROBIN RUIZENDAAL
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Hundreds demand peace in Taipei protest
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More than 500 representatives from over 30 social groups across the nation yesterday take part in a protest next to the American Institute in Taiwan to object to a US-led war against Iraq. Demonstrators say they fear innocent Iraqis will be killed and are opposed to US unilateralism.
PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
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Key Zanadau suspects out on bail
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Su Hui-jen, co-counder of Zanadau Development Corp, left, is released from custody yesterday after managing to raise the NT$2 million bail.
PHOTO: HUNG MIN-LUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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S&P 500 has a major rally
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Traders and specialists kept working the floor at the New York Stock Exchange while listening to television coverage of Chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix as he delivered his report on Iraq to the UN Security Council on Friday.
PHOTO: AP
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StockPatrol.com scours penny stocks for scams
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Hartley Bernstein, left, a former penny-stock con man, and his wife, Debra Cherney at their home in Manhattan last month. He now indicates signs of penny-stock fraud on a Web site.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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Sony out-duels Microsoft
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Splinter Cell by Ubi Soft is a top-selling game for the Microsoft's video game Xbox console. The software giant has just barely made the low end of its forecast for console sales.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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Nostalgia for the bad old days
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PHOTO COURTESY OF PTS
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A scene from the highly-anticipated television drama based on Kenneth Pai's ground-breaking work Crystal Boys.
PHOTO COURTESY OF KUO CHENG-CHANG
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Kenneth Pai, author of Crystal Boys and one of Taiwan's foremost literary figures, stands before a poster promoting a TV mini-series based on his book.
PHOTO: YU SEN-LUN, TAIPEI TIMES
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Bringing Taiwanese literature to the world
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Howard Goldblatt, right, with Sylvia Li-Chun Lin.
PHOTO: BRADLEY WINTERTON
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Who let the the kids into the porn show?
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Kyoichi Tsuzuki's Satellite of Love, a photographic installation about Japanese love hotels, was not singled out for criticism by Taipei City Councilwoman Lee Wen-ying.
PHOTO COURTESY OF TFAM
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Oladele Ajiboye Bamgboye's Body combines a projected video image with music for a commentary on intimacy and AIDS.
PHOTO COURTESY OF TFAM
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`Authentics' and `originals' by a modern master
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The First Magnolia, by Imogen Cunningham.
PHOTO COURTESY OF TIVAC
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Kovalev hits mark for Rangers
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New York Rangers winger Alexei Kovalev, left, outraces former teammate Pittsburgh Penguins winger Ville Nieminen in the first period of their NHL game on Friday at New York's Madison Square Garden. Kovalev was traded to the Rangers from the Penguins a few days ago. The Rangers won 1-0 with a goal scored by Kovalev.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Giggs guilty as sin, Arsenal wins 2-0
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Arsenal's Brazilian midfielder Edu, second right, celebrates with teammates Sol Campbel, left, Robert Pires, second left, and Francis Jeffers, right, after scoring against Manchester United in their FA Cup fifth round match at Old Trafford, Manchester, yesterday. Arsenal won an odd match 2-0 after an astonishing blunder by Ryan Giggs, who failed to convert an easy chance.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Alinghi sinks Kiwis in race 1
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Alinghi SUI-64, skippered by Russell Coutts, beats to the windward mark during the first race of the 31st America's Cup in the Hauraki Gulf off Auckland, yesterday. Swiss challenger Alinghi won against Team New Zealand, Skippered by Dean Barker - which was forced to retire with a torn headsail - and now leads 1-0 in the best-of-nine series.
PHOTO: AFP
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Greenpeace flies an 18m by 6m "No War, Peace Now" banner over Auckland's Waitemata harbor, to coincide with the start of the America's Cup yacht challenge yesterday.
PHOTO: AP
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