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...apology to China sounds exactly like what I used to say when I got into trouble at age 11. Back then, if I kicked my sister in the shin, my mom would grab my shoulder and make me apologize. After some hedging, I'd say something like, "I'm sorry your leg hurts," and try to run away. Of course my mother would then grab my neck and make me give a real apology. But the Chinese government could never be as strict as my mom. Is this what international diplomacy has come to--puerile finger pointing, posturing and pseudo...
...remember the first time I saw them, dog-eared and worn. They were tucked into my mother?s school bag, buried beneath sheaves of blue books and manila folders. I was looking for a special blue pen my mom used to correct tests. Instead, I found Cliffs Notes...
...fall of 1983, and my mom was already deeply immersed in her classes, teaching Shakespeare to 10th and 12th graders. Her leather bag was stuffed with copies of "Romeo and Juliet," "Hamlet" and "King Lear." I remember wondering, as I reached for the bright yellow booklet, what my mom, an inveterate and notoriously demanding teacher, would want with what were commonly known as "cheater books...
...young then. So innocent. I had no idea how far my mom would go in the name of intellectual advancement...
...idea that every time my mom wrote a test or even a quiz on a book she was teaching, she would first sit down with the corresponding Cliffs Notes (and any spinoff cheater books that were on the scene) and painstakingly write the test around the information in the booklets...