Lee leads 150,000 in name-change rally
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Former president Lee Teng-hui, center, waves his cap during a demonstration in Taipei yesterday demanding that Taiwan be called Taiwan. Lee later delivered a speech in front of the Presidential Office.
PHOTO: SEAN CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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Arafat wins power tussle as Abbas quits Palestinian post
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Mahmoud Abbas leaves his office shortly after submitting his resignation to parliament in the West Bank city of Ramallah yesterday.
PHOTO: AP
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A walk in the sun for `Taiwan'
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A crowd of 100,000 people walk past the South Gate in Taipei yesterday to campaign for rectifying the name of Taiwan.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG AND SEAN CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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A demonstrator puts stickers on his face reading ``Taiwan as a nation'' to show his support for changing the name of Taiwan.
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An aged woman, who fainted earlier during the march yesterday because of the hot weather, prays for the success of the campaign as medical workers move her into an ambulance.
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A participant in the demonstration throws darts at a poster of former Chinese president Jiang Zemin.
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A man places self-made models of Taiwan on his wide-brimmed hat to show his firm support for the Campaign for Rectifying the Name of Taiwan.
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Chen keeps his distance from campaign
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President Chen Shui-bian, left, admires a salt statue of the Butterfly Princess during a visit to Taichung and Taichung County yesterday.
PHOTO: YANG MEI-HONG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Critics question HK leader's motives
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Protesters hold a banner that reads: ``Bringing Tung down with democracy is nothing to be ashamed of. Open dialogue, fair debate'' and shows a cartoon of Hong Kong's political leader Tung Chee-hwa, during an anti-Tung march from downtown Hong Kong to government headquarters yesterday.
PHOTO: AP
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Mugabe militiamen speak out
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Zimbabwean Archbishop Pius Ncube of Matabeleland (Bulawayo) listens to a former member of Zimbabwe's youth militia tell how he and a group of other militiamen killed a member of the MDC in Matabeleland, during a press conference on Friday in Johannesburg.
PHOTO: AFP
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What will replace NASA's shuttle?
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ILLUSTRATION: MOUNTAIN PEOPLE
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Weak yen boosts Japanese automakers
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Singapore's financial district glows at sunset. The number of Singaporeans earning below S$400 (US$230) a month or S$13 (US$7) day has jumped 40 percent since the financial crisis rocked the region in 1997 and 1998, swelling to 180,650 workers by last year, or around 9 percent of the workforce, government data showed yesterday. That is four times the growth in Singapore's labor market in the same period, according to the Ministry of Manpower's data.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Warner's dirty laundry
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Movies coming from Warner Brothers include The Last Samurai, with Tom Cruise, which is pictured above.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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Under the knife in search of beauty
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A transformed Rosalyn Ku appears at the Golden Horse Awards ceremony last year.
PHOTO COURTESY OF ARTIST PLASTIC SURGERY CLINIC
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James Chang is proud of what the calls his "lipo-sculpture" skills.
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A woman after liposuction has been performed.
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A woman undergoing liposuction.
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A kingdom above the clouds
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An avenue of hairy Japanese maples is one of the highlights of the Taiping Mountain Forest Recreation Area.
PHOTO: IAN BARTHOLOMEW, TAIPEI TIMES
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The terminal stop at Maohsin is a favorite place to take a few snaps.
PHOTO: IAN BARTHOLOMEW, TAIPEI TIMES
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Warming up for the next world war without realizing it
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The Third World War
By Humphrey Hawksley
514 pages
Pan Books
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Getting back in touch with nature
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Lee Mei-huei's landscape works capture the spirit of Taiwan, with Ping Trees.
PHOTO COURTESY OF HON-GAH MUSEUM
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Wild Cheery Blossoms in Bloom.
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Another theory on the evolution of man, according to man
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Sex, Time and Power: How Women's Sexuality Changed the Course of Human Evolution
By Leonard Shlain
420 pages
Viking
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A rebel who succeeds in promoting traditional art
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Some Random Journeys, ink on paper, by Chu Ko.
PHOTO COURTESY OF ARTIST
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Chu Ko's ink paintings are remarkably simple and contain light-hearted prose in highly unusual Chinese calligraphic script.
PHOTO: MAX WOODWORTH, TAIPEI TIMES
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Lions showed heart last month
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Chen Lien-hung of the President Lions easily won August Offensive Player of the Month honors as he led the league in hitting, with a .561 average for the month.
PHOTO: TAIPEI TIMES FILE PHOTO
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Pan Wei-luen, rookie starting pitcher for the President Lions, returned to his winning form last month, earning him Pitcher of the Month honors.
PHOTO: TAIPEI TIMES FILE PHOTO
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Red Sox out slug Yankees to narrow gap in AL East
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Red Sox' left fielder Manny Ramirez catches a fly ball by Yankees' Bernie Williams at Yankee Stadium in New York, Friday.
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Andy Pettitte of Yankee reacts after walking Red Sox batter Manny Ramirez at Yankee Stadium, Friday.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Agassi, Roddick in semifinals at Open
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Guillermo Coria of Argentina returns a shot to Andre Agassi during his quarterfinal match at the US Open tennis championships at Flushing Meadows, New York, Friday. Agassi won 6-4, 6-3, 7-5.
PHOTO: AFP
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Andre Agassi of celebrates after defeating Guillermo Coria at the US Open.
PHOTO: AFP
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Clijsters and Henin-Hardenne end victorious
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Kim Clijsters of Belgium pumps her fist during her match against Lindsay Davenport at the US Open, Friday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Mutola takes US$1 million prize
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Maria Mutola of Mozambique, right, sprints to win the women's 800m in the Memorial Ivo Van Damme Golden League Athletics Meeting, in Brussels, Friday. Mutola banked a prize of US$1 million for her sixth win in the event in the Golden League meetings.
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