Regulars

Letter from the Editor

From the Desk

Perspectives


Toppers

Top Ten Reasons to Love Taiwan
By Andrew Crosthwaite


Interview

Ultramarathon Man
By Matt Gibson


From the Road

Hellride to Heaven
By Teveli Gabor

Triumph
By David Alexander

Three Times on Two Wheels
By Chris Scott


Reflection
It's Something
By Kimberley Powell

The Homefront

Reaching the Peak
By Caroline Emmerson

Busted
By Anonymous

Conquering Fears
By Fabian Dearaujo


Gettin' It Done

How to Apply for a Permit to Climb Yushan
By Matt Gibson


Photofactual Essay
Protest
By Teveli Gabor and Cheng Kai-Chun

Contest

Triumph of Teaching
By Andrew Crosthwaite

A Small Teaching Victory
By Carey J. Broder

My Triumph
By Sam Sherry


Excerpt

To Squat or Not to Squat


Comic

Bonus Web Features

Gettin' It Done

How to Fish for Prawns (in Neihu)
By Dana Lee


Interview

Mark Lee: Foreign Affairs Officer
By David May


Perspectives

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail.
Woodrow Wilson

If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort.
Dave Weinbaum

Persistent work triumphs.
Virgil

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Pierre Corneille

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
B. C. Forbes

"The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity."
Friedrich Nietzsche

Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph.
Zig Ziglar

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
Voltaire

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Henry Louis Mencken

Art is the triumph over chaos.
John Cheever

You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth.
Mahatma Ghandi

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Thomas Paine

Television is the triumph of machine over people.
Fred Allen

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
Nelson Mandela

A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
D.H. Lawrence

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end, good will triumph.
Margaret Thatcher

If misery loves company, then triumph deserves an audience.
Brian Moore

The victory of the new Iraq will be the triumph of freedom over hate, of decency over intolerance.
Jalal Talabani

It's not that Good doesn't triumph over Evil, it's that the point spread is too small.
Bob Thaves

The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British Arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave the royal cause an air of triumph.
Mercy O. Warren

Sharing a triumph with someone is an incredible high.
Cynthia Weil

What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?
Margaret Carlson

The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.
Pierre de Coubertin

What these monsters fail to realize is that Americans are more resolved than ever to see freedom triumph in Iraq and around the world.
John Doolittle

In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career.
Rupert Holmes

Real love is a growing and development process that involves every emotion, problem, joy and triumph known to man.
Zig Ziglar

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.
Henry Anatole Grunwald

A victory without danger is a triumph without glory.
Pierre Corneille

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
Ben Stein

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he's partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.
Tom Wolfe

We triumph without danger when we conquer without glory.
Pierre Corneille

My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great strength in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in hard work.
John H. Johnson

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but is no less a magnificent measure of triumph and tragedy.
John F. Kennedy

We are being told that globalism is the key to economic progress and efficiency and the triumph of the market over communism.
David Korten

Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.
Max Lerner

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Henry Wadsworth

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.
Rowan D. Williams

Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.
Lawrence Stern