Standing up for peace
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Demonstrators from across the country participate in yesterday's March for Democracy and Peace to Protect Taiwan, organized to protest China's ``Anti-Secession'' Law, gather at Ketagelan Boulevard.
PHOTO: FANG PIN-CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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Foreign community joins march
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Jake Stevenson, a 22-year-old student from the US, joins the rally against China's ``Anti-Secession'' Law near National Taiwan University. His shirt reads, ``Helping Taiwan on behalf of the US,'' and his sign reads, ``Commies: Not `one country, two systems,' but `one country, two fingers.'''
PHOTO: MO YAN-CHIH
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Lee urges new approach to China threat
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Former President Lee Teng-hui, center, accompanied by former senior presidential advisor Koo Kuang-ming, left, and former TSU chairman Huang Chu-wen, right, waves a flag at bystanders on one of the protest routes yesterday.
PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
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Premier and vice premier take part in peace march
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A sleeping child wears a headband that reads ``ethnic solidarity'' and other slogans during yesterday's demonstration against China's ``Anti-Secession'' Law.
PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
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`Anti-Secession' Law peace protest mostly peaceful
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President Chen Shui-bian, center, holds up two inflatable batons during yesterday's March for Democracy and Peace to Protect Taiwan rally. To the left of Chen is his daughter Chen Hsin-yu, and her husband Chao Chien-ming, who is holding the couple's son, Chao Yi-an.
PHOTO: LIU HSIN-TEH, TAIPEI TIMES
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Kyrgyzstan police battle pillagers as chaos grows
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Elderly opposition supporters wearing traditional Kyrgyz hats attend a rally to mark the stunningly swift change of power yesterday.
PHOTO: AP
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Militants step up attacks
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Some 1,525 pairs of boots symbolizing each US soldier killed in the war in Iraq are shown yesterday at City Hall in San Francisco, in a display named Eyes Wide Open, the American Friends Service Committee's exhibition on the human cost of the Iraq war.
PHOTO: AFP
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Fax machines refusing to leave the paperless office
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Rodney Eddins in Orlando, Florida, bonds with his office fax machine last Monday. Each morning, Eddins, an accountant, checks his fax machine before turning to his answering machine and his e-mail.
PHOTO: THE NEW YORK TIMES
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Activists point to widespread animal abuse
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Recently captured stray dogs, above, at a shelter in Taipei await the attention of a veterinary surgeon. A sick brown bear, below, at Kaohsiung's Shoushan Zoo is shown in a photo taken covertly by activists.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF LCA
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Charles Shuttleworth represents the International Primate Protection League in Taiwan.
PHOTO: GAVIN PHIPPS, TAIPEI TIMES
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Protest singer sings again
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Kimbo, shown above and at top, performs some of his old songs recently in advance of the release of his new album.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF IGNITE FIRE
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'Secret Histories' of Burma revealed
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Secret Histories
By Emma Larkin
232 pages
John Murray
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Mixed-media shrine displays new icons
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Lohan 9.
PHOTO COURTESY OF MAIN TREDN GALLERY
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Lohan 16, by J.C. Kuo.
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Exhibition draws on the importance of lines
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Pierre Alechinsky's Fenetre.
PHOTO COURTESY OF TFAM
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The deadly sins and redeeming qualities of three presidents
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Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon in 1948
By Lance Morrow
Basic Books
312 pages
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S Africans have poor showing
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Paul Miller, left, of the Highlanders is tackled by Barend Pieterse of the Cats during their match in Johannesburg on Friday.
PHOTO: AP
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Sports Briefs
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Eagles soar in first game
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Managers Yasushi Tao, left, of the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles and Bobby Valentine of the Lotte Marines shake hands prior to their season opener of Japan's Pacific League at Marines Stadium in Chiba, Japan yesterday. The Eagles, Japan's first expansion team in 50 years, won their first game 3-1.
PHOTO: AP
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Trojans vanquish Devils in regional
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Duke's DeMarcus Nelson, middle, fights for a loose ball with Michigan State's Crew Neitzel, front, and Alan Anderson during second half of an NCAA Austin Region semifinal game at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas, Friday. The Trojans beat the Blue Devils 78-68.
PHOTO: AP
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Iverson leads Sixers to win with 36 points
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Ray Allen, right, of the SuperSonics drives against Tim Thomas of the Knicks at Key Arena in Seattle, Washington on Friday. Seattle came through 109-101 in overtime.
PHOTO: AFP
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Allen Iverson, right, of the 76ers, battles Aaron Williams of the Raptors during the first half in Philadelphia on Friday.
PHOTO: AP
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