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...Western diplomat based in Beijing - even rekindling the guttering Olympic torch. "The Olympics seemed destined for disaster and that would have been a major setback for China's emergence onto the world stage," says the diplomat. "Now many people will be cheering for the Chinese and hoping they pull off a good show. That will be pivotal for China self-confidence and its perception of its place in the world...
...worlds, I also see the experience of interacting with your reality in a way that you normally can't as a great source of entertainment." He is now working on a music game. It's due later this year, even if it takes a few Bowser-like outbursts to pull...
...world, the donations of cash and goods and the dispatch of foreign search-and-rescue teams, doctors and other personnel. The outpouring of international goodwill "has changed everything," says a senior Western diplomat based in Beijing. "Now many people will be cheering for the Chinese and hoping they pull off a good show at the Olympics. That will be pivotal for China's self-confidence and its perception of its place in the world...
...rest. At an office of the local electric power plant, troops were still trying to save a man in his early 30s who, remarkably, remained alive but was imprisoned by wreckage of a collapsed building. Orange-suited rescuers stood on top of the debris pile, looking for ways to pull him out as if trying to solve a gigantic concrete puzzle. "He's trapped but not crushed," said a soldier at the scene. "We have to go very slowly." Workers kept the man alive by feeding him liquids while they waited for the delivery of equipment needed to free...
...fact that they were able to pull off raising that much money was great, especially since there were so many students there,” said Lin Gao ’10, co-president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Chinese Student Association (CSA) and a native of the Sichuan province...