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...with sparkling new subways and 10 state-of-the-art stadiums. The spending was the plan of former Communist Party chief and former President Jiang Zemin, who took credit for Beijing's winning bid in 2001. The Olympic projects, it was hoped, would mark China's economic growth and proclaim its arrival as a world power. Now times have changed. Last week Liu Qi, president of the Beijing Olympic-organizing committee, scrapped half the planned stadiums in a demonstration of what he called "the principle of thrift." But in Beijing, observers of the always opaque Chinese leadership are wondering...
LESSON "Every form of media seems to proclaim what we must do in order to find acceptance...Challenge your young people to reject these lies. Instead, help them find contentment in [their] unique God-given shape and personality." ministryandmedia.com...
...avoid serving—“Any government that would send my peers to an unjustified conflict overseas,” went one favorite, “does not deserve my participation.” My voir dire would be my bully pulpit, a chance to proclaim my dissent in ringing tones, overheard and applauded by dozens of Manhattanites. Plus, I wanted to get out early and buy cheap earrings from the vendors on Canal Street...
...most presidential campaigners had learned to follow that model, and the ones who hadn't, like Pat Buchanan, crashed and burned in their own rhetorical fires. Bob Dole used to proclaim himself "the most optimistic man in America." And Clinton was the Reagan of the liberals, always full of bright-faced hope for a new tomorrow. By comparison, Gingrich and his followers made conservatism look snide and angry and strenuous. They learned the phrases but never the genial delivery of the man who carried 49 states in 1984 without breaking a sweat...
...there have been conflicting statements about how the soldiers knew where the men were being held. Italian newspapers speculated that the government may have paid a ransom. Calling such claims "fantasy and falsehoods," a buoyant Berlusconi appeared on news programs from the G-8 summit in Georgia to proclaim that he personally "took the responsibility" to green-light the rescue mission. Amid all the sincere relief and jubilation, some also saw political calculation in the Prime Minister's delight: his struggling government needed all the help it could get before last weekend's European Parliament polls