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"The ceremony preceded 16days of competition, for which China has spent $70 billion - six times the record of Athens in 2004."' Y8 Q0 g7 I2 ]
* Q8 ^# I8 ?. {5 P - i5 F2 i5 ?) r2 c3 ?$ ["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?" ! K. I$ }% {; V3 h-----------------------------------------------. j% C5 e5 I1 o
the meaning of the big party is inestimable.