呂秀蓮, 馬英九 不共戴天

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Farah Stockman, In Opposition; How a decades-old Harvard rivalry helped tochange Taiwan. Boston Globe, July 3, 2012.
http://articles.boston.com/2012- ... tang-annette-lu-kmt

Excerpt in the window of print: But just as Lu geared up her activism, a new PhD student arrived at Harvard Law School.

Note:
(a) Farah
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farah
(a female given name; Arabic for "joy", "happiness" and "mirth")

Compare
Farrah Fawcett
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrah_Fawcett
(1947-2009; Fawcett once said the name "Farrah" was "made up" by her mother because it went well with their last name)
(ii) Farrah
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrah
(Farrah is a given name that can be either masculine or feminine)

(b) The Dutch and English surname Stockman (both Middle Dutch and Middle English:  stock ‘stump’, ‘stick’), for someone living by a tree stump or for a tree cutter.
(c) Farah Stockman is a columnist and editorial writer for the Boston Globe, herself having graduated from Harvard College (the undergraduate division of Harvard U) in 1996.
(d) 呂秀蓮 was born in 1944, while 馬英九, in 1950 in Hong Kong (so the article was not totally accurate when it stated, "Ma Ying-jeou, who was born ion mainland China to a senior KMT party official."

(e) The article said, "Since then, she [Lu] has survived an assassination attempt, five years [of] imprisonment."
* The assassination attempt occurred in Tainan on Mar 19, 2004 (the eve of presidential election); also shot was Mr Chen Shui-bian.
* The imprisonment followed "Kaohsiung Incident" where she delivered a 20-minute speech on Dec 10 (Human Rights Day), 1979.  

(f) The article observed, "Renowned China expert Jerome Cohen convinced her [Lu] to take a fellowship at Harvard Law School."

In fact, she obtained a second LLM 法學碩士學位 after one year (1977-1978) in Harvard. Her first LLM was from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1969-1971).  

(g) The article remarked, "Ma's father was so dedicated to the dream of reuniting with China that after his [the father's] death, a slogan about it was written on his urn that held his ashes."

The father was 馬鶴凌
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A6%AC%E9%B6%B4%E5%87%8C‡Œ
(1920-2005; 馬鶴凌的骨灰罈題有「化獨漸統、全面振興中國」、「協強扶弱、一起邁向大同」兩句)
(h) Jerome A Cohen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_A._Cohen(1930- ; currently with New York University; In 1964, Cohen became a Professor at Harvard University School of Law, where he would remain for 17 years)
(i) The article also mentioned Lu "struck with debilitating cancer."

In early 1980s, while incarcarated she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, of which a patient rarely dies.

(j) Another article of the same thesis:
Emily Newburger, The rivalsAnnette Lu and Ma Ying-jeou share a history. But they offer different futures for Taiwan. Harvard Law Bulletin, Summer, 2006.
http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/ ... ummer/feature_3.php

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(k) Rich Chang, Former Officials Found Not Guilty. Taipei Times, July 3, 2012
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/ ... 12/07/03/2003536855
(呂秀蓮, 游錫堃, and 陳唐山)