Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has urged Britain's Cambridge University not to expel a German student who threw a shoe at him during a speech at the university last week. "Education is the best help for a young student," Wen said in a statement issued via Fu Ying, the Chinese ambassador to Britain, on Monday, Feb. 9. "It is hoped the university will give the student an opportunity to continue his studies," Fu quoted Wen as saying in a statement posted on the ministry's website. "As a Chinese saying goes, it is more precious than gold for a young person to turn around to redress mistakes," Wen said. "It is hoped that this student will see his mistake and seek to understand a real and developing China," he said.
"Education is the best help for a young student," Wen said in a statement issued via Fu Ying, the Chinese ambassador to Britain, on Monday, Feb. 9.
"It is hoped the university will give the student an opportunity to continue his studies," Fu quoted Wen as saying in a statement posted on the ministry's website.
"As a Chinese saying goes, it is more precious than gold for a young person to turn around to redress mistakes," Wen said. "It is hoped that this student will see his mistake and seek to understand a real and developing China," he said.
Enrico Mentana, the editorial director of Berlusconi's banner network Channel Five, has resigned in a flap over the death of Eluana Englaro. Channel Five did not cancel or interrupt the transmission of "Big Brother" despite the dramatic events.
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Watching this press conference from Obama, I have to say: God fucking damn it, Obama. You see the problem with the economy, you've got religion on it, and the best you come up with is a motherfucking $800bn hunk of spit in the fucking bucket. You stupid son of a bitch.
Whole God-damned press conference. Stand-issue Keynesianism. Right, right, right. So what the fuck?
And these motherfuckers, Ben Nelson and Susan Collins, these sorry sacks of fucking shit...
[Drew's Crystal Ball of GAAAAAHHHHH™ Technology]
</rant> Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Although personally I think we are likely to see straightforward government jobs a la the 1930s CCC, etc.
While I think we're going to see WPA/CCC type agencies emerge over the next two years at this moment trying to get them established and funded is a lost cause. Too many in Congress are too invested in and by the pluts for "socialism" to be enacted.
I'm no Obama fan. He is way too centerist for me. But at this moment I'm more excited and hopeful than I've been since 1967.
wasn't pulled out of his, pause, hat,
haha, i saw that too, he almost said it....
ass----tyat would also have raised his pop ratings...
these pauses... are they a tic, or timeout to think a better reply, he always saves his line of thought, but they are definitely not soundbites, and sometimes i wonder if he's going to shake his head and say, 'what was it we were talking about again?'
he did inhale, after all... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
He showed he was "in command," that he was the President, that he wanted to have solutions to solve the problems.
AND he said we needed to re-regulate the financial industry.
All in all -- I was impressed.
Also it was nice to have a President who can speak in coherent sentences. A minor point, perhaps, but -- Gawd -- what a difference from the last 8 years.
