You hoping it's fourth time lucky
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You Ying-lung holds up the registration form for the Hualien County commissioner by-election last week.
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Election draws Hsieh from retirement
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Hsieh Shen-shan, right, the KMT's candidate in the Hualien County commissioner by-election, waves to supporters during a rally held by a local labor union last week.
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Top police administrator moves into intelligence
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Wang Chin-wang, outgoing chief of the National Police Administration, shakes hands with colleagues during the takeover ceremony last week.
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Tibetan association leader says relations markedly improved
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Joseph Wu, secretary-general of the Taiwan-Tibet Exchange Foundation, holds a photo of the Dalai Lama presenting President Chen Shui-bian with a shawl .
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Attack frays Pakistan's nerves
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A protestor throws a burning tire to disrupt traffic in Lahore on Saturday. Angry Pakistanis mourned the dead following a suicide attack on a Shiite Muslim mosque in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Friday. At least 44 people were killed and 65 wounded in Friday's attack on the packed mosque.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Surgeons launch operation to separate conjoined twins
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Iranian twins Ladan, left, and Laleh Bijani, who were born joined at the head, rest after a preoperative procedure in Singapore in this photo from last month.
PHOTO: AP
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Chechen vote to go ahead, Russia says
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A rescue worker helps a victim of the blast near Tushino airfield on Saturday. At least 15 people were killed and around 50 injured when two female suicide bombers blew themselves up outside a rock concert at the airfield near Moscow.
PHOTO: AFP
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Nigeria lends support to Taylor
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A child walks past a monument commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Geneva Convention, in the Liberian capital Monrovia on Saturday.
PHOTO: AP
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A market democracy for Iraq
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ILLUSTRATION: MOUNTAIN PEOPLE
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EU envoy says Taiwan is still attractive to investors
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Brian McDonald, head of the European Economic and Trade Office in Taiwan, during an interview with the Taipei Times. McDonald said the economic problems facing Taiwan are the same as many other countries around the world.
PHOTO: JESSIE HO, TAIPEI TIMES
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Reading history in a piece of string
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Gary Urton with a number of khipus tied together at the Peabody Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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Red Sox make Yankees and Clemens look bad
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New York Yankees Hideki Matsui hits a single against the Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium in New York on Saturday.
PHOTO: AP
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Greg Biffle wins with timely fuel stop
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Kurt Busch (97) gets sideways in front of Jeff Burton (99), Steve Park (30), and Robby Gordon (31) during the NASCAR Pepsi 400 at the Daytona international Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida, on Saturday.
PHOTO: AP
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Serena among the best ever
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Serena Williams holds hew trophy after winning the women's final over her sister, Venus Williams, at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, England. Serena Williams won 4-6, 6-4, 6-2.
PHOTO: AFP
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Woods sets record-smashing pace with 18-under 198
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Tiger Woods watches his tee shot during the third round of the Western Open at Cog Hill Golf and Country Club in Lemont, Illinois, on Saturday.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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