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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...difficulties, breaking off sentences to start new ones, leaving some key phrases untranslated. The result was disappointing. The Chinese host of the broadcast criticized the interpreter outright, and a Beijing official later observed to his daughter in the U.S. that Clinton came out sounding like a "stupid man who cannot finish a sentence." The State Department has asked for tapes of the broadcasts so the interpretation can be "checked for quality control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The China Trip | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

However, Coordinator of the Senior Gift Program Peggy V. Hsai said the success of the program cannot be measured just in dollar totals...

Author: By Jennifer M. Siegel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Class of 1998 Doesn't Ante Up for Harvard | 7/24/1998 | See Source »

...conquer the world and all its men. But a woman's success is seldom a point she wants to "rub in" to members of the opposite sex. She may wish to be viewed as an individual, not as a representative of her gender. Sadly, our society is one that cannot differentiate between someone's proving a point as a woman and proving herself as a person. LAUREN RUTLEDGE, age 16 Okemos, Mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 20, 1998 | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

...difficulties, breaking off sentences to start new ones, leaving some key phrases untranslated. The result was disappointing. The Chinese host of the broadcast criticized the interpreter outright, and a Beijing official later observed to his daughter in the U.S. that Clinton came out sounding like a "stupid man who cannot finish a sentence." The State Department has asked for tapes of the broadcasts so the interpretation can be "checked for quality control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton in China: Lost in Translation | 7/19/1998 | See Source »

...towns have yet to become drab, concrete cities, that the villagers have not traded their packhorses for personal cars, that food is still cooked in hot pots over live, burning coals, that the women still wear their brightly colored headdresses and ethnic dress. Perhaps even the fact that I cannot access the latest international newspapers has been therapeutic for this would-be journalist...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, | Title: POSTCARD FROM ZHONGDIAN | 7/17/1998 | See Source »

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