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李云迪1982年出生于中国重庆市，相对于同样签约在Deutsche Grammophon门下的另一位中国钢琴家郎朗(Lang Lang)那种取悦大众、但却极为平庸粗糙、毫无艺术感可言的风格，李云迪的演奏一直都在维系一块宝贵的净土。

“第一名”只在体育竞技场上或者极权政府里才有意义。郎朗的父亲是一位军人，正是他逼迫郎朗无休无止的练习钢琴。有一次郎朗练琴迟到，还被父亲下令“要么跳楼、要么喝药”自杀。

格拉夫曼曾语带讥讽地表示，如果舒曼(Schumann)听到郎朗对他的音乐的诠释，他可能会突发心脏病，尽管“可能不至于致命”。

怎么会？人家正信心满满要成为第二个罗斯福呢，怎么会去盗别人的版，而且被盗的还是一个几乎已成全民公敌的“跛鸭”总统。

由此看来，奥巴马政府在财经、外交和国防三大领域恐怕很难跳出布什政府的窠臼，而鉴于一贯标榜自由市场理念的布什政府为应对金融危机已差不多对半条华尔街实施了国有化，美联储周二更是将援手直接深向了消费贷款和小企业贷款，或许一直被人强贴“社会主义者”标签的奥巴马就任后即使想对号入座也难有多少机会了

很喜欢秋水他们的创意和用心，所以很期待这本《名博是怎么炼成的》，它应该为今年11月要召开的中文网志年会最好的献礼了。唯一觉得遗憾的，是不是应该先有一本《博客该如何炼成》的启蒙书呢？

Three of the circumvention tools — DynaWeb FreeGate, GPass, and FirePhoenix — used most widely to get around China’s Great Firewall are tracking and selling the individual web browsing histories of their users. Data about aggregate usage of users of the tools is published freely. You can see, for example, that the three sites most visited by users of these circumvention tools are live.com, google.com, and secretchina.com. Aggregate data like this is a terrific resource for those of us interested in researching circumvention tool usage, and not much of a privacy risk for the circumventing users if it is only stored (as well as displayed) in the aggregate.

"there are a few foreigners, with full stomachs, have nothing better to do than try to be backseat drivers of our country's own affairs." "China does not export revolution, hunger, poverty, nor does China cause you any headaches," Xi said indignantly. “Just what else do you want?”

The most interesting thesis is the idea that China could use international law as a weapon, or “lawfare” for short. The authors argue that citizens of democracies increasingly demand that their countries uphold international rules, particularly ones that govern human rights and the conduct of war. Governments are, therefore, constrained by regional or worldwide organizations, such as the European Union, ASEAN, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the WTO and the United Nations. The authors argue that China should copy the European model of using international law to pin down the USA: “there are far-sighted big powers which have clearly already begun to borrow the power of supra-national, multinational, and non-state players to redouble and expand their own influence.” They think that China could turn the United Nations and regional organizations into an amplifier of the Chinese worldview – discouraging the USA from using its might in campaigns like the Iraq War.

Beijing has been willing to allow the Organization of Islamic States to take the lead in weakening the new Human Rights Council. This subtle diplomacy has been devastatingly effective – contributing to a massive fall in US influence: in 1995 the USA won 50.6 percent of the votes in the United Nations general assembly; by 2006, the figure had fallen to just 23.6 percent. On human rights, the results are even more dramatic: China’s win-rate has rocketed from 43 percent to 82 percent, while the USA’s has tumbled from 57 per cent to 22 percent. The New York Times’ UN correspondent James Traub has detected a paradigm shift in the United Nations’ operations: “it’s a truism that the Security Council can function only insofar as the United States lets it. The adage may soon be applied to China as well.” Traub may be right. China’s capacity to influence the United Nations is increasing, and soon we may be complaining about Chinese behavior on big policy issues

"The heavy presence of Chinese (People's) Liberation Army officers throughout the proceedings left many wondering exactly what image the hosts were intending to project to the international community...," the newspaper said. "At a time when Tibet, Darfur and China's broader human rights record are proving delicate issues for Beijing organizers, the move to present thousands of drilled, sobersided army officers ... was surprising for its brazenness; a none too subtle projection of strength," it said. Asked about the military theme, Zhang Jigang, chief of the People's Liberation Army dance troupe, told reporters there were "excellent performers and directors" in the military. "I think this is a Chinese characteristic," he said. "All of the military arms have ... have wonderful acrobats and opera troupes. We should make use of such resources."

15] 标题： 发表评论人：[游客]Roger [2008-10-10 22:30:02]   Prof. Dr. Chemist Hongfei Wang, My Chinese name is 钱永健. It is right written in your blog (although my chinese is not so good). However, the right way writing of my name (as showed by 曹聪) is Roger Tsien. You even do not know my name. It seems true you do not know what I am doing at all. I am not a Chemist. but you are. Best regards.

Now that the Olympics has been handed on to London, should Britain in turn make visas difficult for Chinese nationals? Allow 15 days only. Apply at Shanghai British Consulate/Embassy between the hours of 9.00 – 10.00 am in person, Mondays only. No agents. The possibilities are infinite. They might even ban all foreigners from the Olympics and give Britain a chance for more gold medals.

They announced: "We have immediately asked relevant government departments to investigate those that started the rumour." Relevant government departments? But how enchanting to find Nike speaking like the foreign office of an independent republic, almost as if the sportswear firm has an extradition treaty with the Chinese government. It hasn't, of course, so the rather more salient question is whether Nike has any qualms about getting the famously gossamer-touched Chinese government to leave no stone unturned in the hunt for - and let's keep stressing it - an anonymous internet poster."We want to act to protect our brand reputation in the same way as any corporation would want to if people were posting or writing false accusations," the Nike spokesman Charlie Brooks told the Guardian yesterday. "This isn't about a debate on freedom of speech. It's simply helping us to identify the person who posted it."

Could a mainland paper run a satirical opinion piece saying that Hu Jintao was doing a bad job? "No, because it would be untrue," he said. "But what if the article was all factually true? There were no false statistics, no misspelled names, no wrong dates. But an opinion that Hu was handling things badly?" "But he IS doing a good job," my Chinese friend said. The point was not whether he or I personally thought Hu was doing a good job; but whether someone could express the opinion that he wasn't. "No," my Chinese friend said. "If, hypothetically, Hu really did something factually, provably wrong -- like he was being tried for corruption -- that could be reported."

This chart shows recent changes in the Chinese Internet Censorship Index (CICI) value. Values less than 100% shows that sites are being blocked in China (but not outside of China). Lower values indicate more censorship — we're aiming to get China 100% censorship-free!

EPA/RUNGROJ YONGRIT 亲政府人士遭痛殴泰国保守派人士是此次反政府抗议活动的幕后力量，他们看到了民主制给泰国带来的影响，但并不喜欢，对其进行了言辞激烈地抨击。上周，数万名保守派人士（其中很多是中年人）占据了曼谷的政府总部，并暂时封锁了三个地区机场。

泰国年纪较长的活动分子是此次政治危机的幕后推动力量，他们担心一人一票的民主制度使得他信这样的民粹政治人士得以掌控国家大权，从而威胁到泰国传统的执政阶层：军方、政府官员，特别是几乎被神化的君主政治。

A United Nations agency is quietly drafting technical standards, proposed by the Chinese government, to define methods of tracing the original source of Internet communications and potentially curbing the ability of users to remain anonymous.

The Chinese author of the document, Huirong Tian, did not respond to repeated interview requests. Neither did Jiayong Chen of China's state-owned ZTE Corporation, the vice chairman of the Q6/17's parent group who suggested in an April 2007 meeting that it address IP traceback.

Another technologist, Jacob Appelbaum, one of the developers of the Tor anonymity system, also was alarmed. "The technical nature of this 'feature' is such a beast that it cannot and will not see the light of day on the Internet," Appelbaum said. "If such a system was deployed, it would be heavily abused by precisely those people that it would supposedly trace. No blackhat would ever be caught by this."

4月30日，巴西在发展之路上再次添砖加瓦，华尔街评级机构标准普尔公司(Standard & Poor's)将巴西的债务上调至“投资级”，巴西也因此成为金砖四国中最后一个获此金字招牌的国家。巴西人欣喜若狂，指出就在巴西23年的民主制度日益巩固之际，该国经济也完成了脱胎换骨的改革。在金砖四国中，只有印度堪与巴西媲美。

墨西哥亿万富豪理查德•萨里纳斯(Ricardo Salinas)近日闪电造访曾经以贫穷闻名、而今业已经济起飞的巴西东北部，计划面向低收入人群推出连锁银行服务。

美国铝业(Alcoa)的拉美总裁富兰克林•费德(Franklin Feder)说，从投资安全的角度而言，巴西比那种一夜之间就可能天翻地覆的独裁体制要好得多。美国铝业在巴西投资了20亿美元用于开发水电、矿业和冶炼项目，这是该公司在全球范围内最雄心勃勃的投资计划。费德说，巴西式民主制度下的决策速度每天都令他们倍感沮丧。大量繁文缛节使美国铝业在亚马逊的一个水电合资企业的牌照申请和建设过程已经花了10年时间，预计还要等到2010年至2011年才能投产。

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Dr. Yu started his remarks by underlining how Hu Jintao, only a year after he was made vice-president, made his national debut in 1999 following the Belgrade bombing—at the height of anti-American protests—and urged for calm and reason from the angry mobs when then-President Jiang Zemin was at the height of his power. Hu’s show of grace, which stood in strong contrast to the often crass measures descriptive of Jiang’s leadership, has led some notable China watchers to predict that Hu is a visionary leader. However, Dr. Yu argues that Hu is not visionary, and the hysteria against the Dalai Lama is an example of Hu’s pedantry of the traditional Chinese political psyche.

An exception to this is Germany, which gave the most negative of all the European assessments. China, on the other hand, was quite positive towards Germany. It probably isn’t anymore.

Danwei posted on Who is winning the Olympic PR War? Jeremy’s conclusion: In the West, Free Tibet organizers. In China, the Chinese government.

Chinese people are not “brainwashed” by the government but carefully considering Western sources and see them as being just biased as their own sources.