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"The ceremony preceded 16days of competition, for which China has spent $70 billion - six times the record of Athens in 2004."2 l m7 e2 K& \: V/ |
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"Without the Olympics' willingness to play, China could never have had this kind of opportunity to show the world the power of a national mind so sharply focused on an instrument of good., fear China a little less, maybe even like it a little?" + ?* m! f0 }( {/ D' W" ]-----------------------------------------------1 ^7 g9 e! ^' d* a
the meaning of the big party is inestimable.