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...type of relationship of equality, solidarity and mutual assistance between different nationalities has been established. People of all nationalities enjoy full rights and freedoms provided for by the law. In places where there is a high concentration of minority-nationality people, regional autonomy is in practice. All these have laid a solid political foundation for consolidated national unity...
...Tasty is Harvard Square's oldest surviving restaurant, with its original floor tiles laid out in 1916 and its serving counter dating from the 50s. Both will be gone by this morning. The store will be completely stripped to its four walls and its contents put into storage--including the counter, dishwasher and pay phone...
...leader of a great nation, signifying not only the end of the opprobrium China has endured since Tiananmen Square but also its emergence as the 21st century's other great power. So Jiang's handlers have been acutely concerned to ensure that his trip conforms exactly to the rules laid down by the last state visit of Deng Xiaoping in 1979, right down to the size of the state dinner...
That's why, when Clinton finally laid out his plan from a podium at the National Geographic Society in Washington, so many people recoiled in dismay. The proposal Clinton described as "far-reaching" and "meaningful" would supposedly roll back U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to where they were in 1990, but would not do so until sometime between 11 and 16 years from now. Yet back in 1992 the U.S., along with most other countries, had signed a treaty committing industrial nations to such a rollback by the year 2000--a point not lost on delegates...
Soon after his arrival, Jiang laid a wreath of white carnations at the Pearl Harbor memorial for soldiers killed in the Japanese attack. His first day ended with a formal dinner at the residence of Hawaii's Governor Benjamin Cayetano...