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Times Mon, Jan 05, 2009 - Page 3　News List  KMT up in arms over
Nobel Prize winner’s remarks  By Flora Wang  /  STAFF REPORTER
A number of Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislators
criticized former Academia Sinica president Lee Yuan-tseh (李遠哲)
yesterday over Lee’s remark that local enterprises offered more
money to the KMT’s presidential candidates than they did to
those from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).  KMT
Legislator Wu Yu-sheng (吳育昇) called Lee’s remark “ridiculous”
and “pointless.”  “[The remark shows] he did not deserve the
Nobel Prize [in chemistry] and he failed Taiwan and its people,”
Wu said.  ETTV reported on Saturday night that Lee was
disappointed with former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁), whom
Lee endorsed during the presidential elections in 2000 and 2004.
“I am disappointed by him and society as a whole. We have a very
bad electoral system. Local businesses have given so much money
to presidential candidates from not