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Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2008

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  • CHEN QIGANG,
  • chief music director of the Olympics' opening ceremony, on why the Chinese government had a 7-year-old girl sing Ode to the Motherland while a 9-year-old girl lip-synched it for the international audience; the older girl was deemed cuter
Photo: Zhou Liang / Xinhua / AP | Source: AP