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"maff" |
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22 Aug 2004 01:50:48 PM |
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A Founding Father? |
A Founding Father?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5783914/site/newsweek/
Hong Kong's hapless Tung never inspired much confidence. But he may
have spurred the most unlikely revolution
By George Wehrfritz and Alexandra A. Seno
Newsweek International
Aug. 30 issue - Give the guy some credit. Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong's
embattled Chief Executive, gets precious little of it from his people
these days—and heaps of grief for all that has befallen them since he
took the helm in mid-1997. A sluggish economy, last year's bungled
SARS epidemic, his ham-fisted efforts to push through antisubversion
legislation that sent half a million people flooding defiantly into
the streets: all of it weighs heavily on the former shipping tycoon
Beijing handpicked to be the city's first postcolonial boss. Yet
Tung's most indelible legacy is a feat once deemed impossible in this
money-obsessed Asian trade hub: in just seven years, he has set Hong
Kong on the road to democracy.
Hong Kong
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Hong+Kong%22&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Hong+Kong%22&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Hong+Kong%22&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Hong%20Kong&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
Is the wakening giant a monster?
http://tinyurl.com/iws6
A Blueprint for the Future
http://tinyurl.com/9vga
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| User: "LT Lee" |
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| Title: Re: A Founding Father? |
22 Aug 2004 07:04:20 PM |
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Well, who knows?
Some day some British paper may decide that Tung had all this planed
out. He rubbed Hong Kongers the wrong way in order to stimulate the
demand for democracy.
Of course, all details would also be exposed from his secret diary
made available by some experts. Nothing new.
maff91@yahoo.com (maff) wrote in message news:<18510aff.0408221050.49034c51@posting.google.com>...
A Founding Father?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5783914/site/newsweek/
Hong Kong's hapless Tung never inspired much confidence. But he may
have spurred the most unlikely revolution
By George Wehrfritz and Alexandra A. Seno
Newsweek International
Aug. 30 issue - Give the guy some credit. Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong's
embattled Chief Executive, gets precious little of it from his people
these days?and heaps of grief for all that has befallen them since he
took the helm in mid-1997. A sluggish economy, last year's bungled
SARS epidemic, his ham-fisted efforts to push through antisubversion
legislation that sent half a million people flooding defiantly into
the streets: all of it weighs heavily on the former shipping tycoon
Beijing handpicked to be the city's first postcolonial boss. Yet
Tung's most indelible legacy is a feat once deemed impossible in this
money-obsessed Asian trade hub: in just seven years, he has set Hong
Kong on the road to democracy.
Hong Kong
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Hong+Kong%22&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Hong+Kong%22&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Hong+Kong%22&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Hong%20Kong&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
Is the wakening giant a monster?
http://tinyurl.com/iws6
A Blueprint for the Future
http://tinyurl.com/9vga
.
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| User: "maff" |
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| Title: Re: A Founding Father? |
23 Aug 2004 03:05:39 AM |
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(LT Lee) wrote in message news:<5eb15984.0408221604.4ce19443@posting.google.com>...
Well, who knows?
Some day some British paper may decide that Tung had all this planed
out. He rubbed Hong Kongers the wrong way in order to stimulate the
demand for democracy.
Of course, all details would also be exposed from his secret diary
made available by some experts. Nothing new.
The problem isn't Tung Chee-hwa, per se. The problem is pro-Beijing
business and civic leaders who don't want to be unpopular.
Unpopularity is not good for business.
maff91@yahoo.com (maff) wrote in message news:<18510aff.0408221050.49034c51@posting.google.com>...
A Founding Father?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5783914/site/newsweek/
Hong Kong's hapless Tung never inspired much confidence. But he may
have spurred the most unlikely revolution
By George Wehrfritz and Alexandra A. Seno
Newsweek International
Aug. 30 issue - Give the guy some credit. Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong's
embattled Chief Executive, gets precious little of it from his people
these days?and heaps of grief for all that has befallen them since he
took the helm in mid-1997. A sluggish economy, last year's bungled
SARS epidemic, his ham-fisted efforts to push through antisubversion
legislation that sent half a million people flooding defiantly into
the streets: all of it weighs heavily on the former shipping tycoon
Beijing handpicked to be the city's first postcolonial boss. Yet
Tung's most indelible legacy is a feat once deemed impossible in this
money-obsessed Asian trade hub: in just seven years, he has set Hong
Kong on the road to democracy.
Hong Kong
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Hong+Kong%22&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Hong+Kong%22&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22Hong+Kong%22&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=Hong%20Kong&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
Is the wakening giant a monster?
http://tinyurl.com/iws6
A Blueprint for the Future
http://tinyurl.com/9vga
.
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| User: "Jim Walsh" |
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| Title: Re: A Founding Father? |
23 Aug 2004 03:14:00 AM |
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On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 01:05:39 -0700, maff thought carefully and wrote:
ltlee1@hotmail.com (LT Lee) wrote in message
news:<5eb15984.0408221604.4ce19443@posting.google.com>...
Well, who knows?
Some day some British paper may decide that Tung had all this planed
out. He rubbed Hong Kongers the wrong way in order to stimulate the
demand for democracy.
Of course, all details would also be exposed from his secret diary made
available by some experts. Nothing new.
The problem isn't Tung Chee-hwa, per se. The problem is pro-Beijing
business and civic leaders who don't want to be unpopular. Unpopularity
is not good for business.
Normally the word "popular" means "liked by the public". In the above
case, "popular" seems to mean "liked by the butchers of TAM."
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Love, Jim
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| User: "maff" |
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| Title: Re: A Founding Father? |
23 Aug 2004 01:31:15 PM |
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Jim Walsh <jimwalsh@ms74.hinet.net> wrote in message news:<pan.2004.08.23.08.13.58.615311@ms74.hinet.net>...
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 01:05:39 -0700, maff thought carefully and wrote:
ltlee1@hotmail.com (LT Lee) wrote in message
news:<5eb15984.0408221604.4ce19443@posting.google.com>...
Well, who knows?
Some day some British paper may decide that Tung had all this planed
out. He rubbed Hong Kongers the wrong way in order to stimulate the
demand for democracy.
Of course, all details would also be exposed from his secret diary made
available by some experts. Nothing new.
The problem isn't Tung Chee-hwa, per se. The problem is pro-Beijing
business and civic leaders who don't want to be unpopular. Unpopularity
is not good for business.
Normally the word "popular" means "liked by the public". In the above
case, "popular" seems to mean "liked by the butchers of TAM."
They're probably like the murderers and torturers at Abu Ghraib and
elsewhere.
Abu Ghraib
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=18510aff.0406010151.48b7fde4%40posting.google.com
A Century Of U.S. Military Interventions: From Wounded Knee to
Afghanistan
http://www.zmag.org/CrisesCurEvts/interventions.htm
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