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"The ceremony preceded 16days of competition, for which China has spent $70 billion - six times the record of Athens in 2004."8 C3 {' ?" q0 H0 t% `; u$ t' n1 A9 k
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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?" e. C: {' ^9 E! k-----------------------------------------------5 a' x6 |: K" T ~
the meaning of the big party is inestimable.