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There is not much, then, to be said to Jiang by a student or citizen protest on American territory. We are left with two roles in the upcoming visit: to commemorate the victims of tyranny, and to speak to our own government...
...main debate about the U.N. concerns its role, and who should bear the cost of such a role. While many in the United States argue that the U.N. costs too much money, each citizen is paying only about $1.11 per annum--not a large fee considering that this allows the U.N. to operate 16 peace keeping missions, large development programs which address not only economic but also health and educational problems, refugees care programs and the international court of justice...
Jiang: Fine Chinese and foreign cultural and artistic work are the shared wealth of all mankind. The absurd activities that downgraded and even destroyed fine culture and art are all erroneous. I am the President of the People's Republic of China, but I am also an ordinary citizen, and I have my own interests and hobbies. For instance, I read Tang dynasty poems, Song dynasty lyrics and Yuan dynasty verses, and some of Dante, Shakespeare, Balzac, Tolstoy and Mark Twain. All of these give me great enjoyment. I also like to listen to Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Strauss, Tchaikovsky...
...Generalissimo worried? Gates said nothing, but perhaps his reply should have been along the lines of the famous newspaper scene in Citizen Kane: ?That?s right, Ms. Reno. I lost a million dollars today. I expect to lose a million dollars tomorrow. And the day after that, and the day after that. You know, at a million dollars a day, I?ll have to close Microsoft in ... three hundred thousand years...
...great way to inaugurate my citizenship," said the formerly Taiwanese citizen...