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"The ceremony preceded 16days of competition, for which China has spent $70 billion - six times the record of Athens in 2004."6 M9 I/ F/ N4 @: q
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"Without the Olympics' willingness to play, China could never have had this kind of opportunity to show the world the power of a national mind so sharply focused on an instrument of good., fear China a little less, maybe even like it a little?" 1 u7 w6 Q8 {; i1 K----------------------------------------------- ' @; ?( r# g' Q A! jthe meaning of the big party is inestimable.