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...Turandot, a very famous opera and the story was set in China. He talked a lot about Puccini and other basic knowledge of opera.... He found a videotape of Turandot for me. It was a version released by the New York Metropolitan Opera...but I still didn't understand what was being sung. The next day Zhao Jiping gave me a rough summary of the story, and suggested that I really should direct this opera even if it meant that I had to give up a film. Seeing that he was so into it, I faxed the Florence Opera house...
...Americans, if they had a chance to ask you a question, Madame Secretary, would say, "Why don't we talk to Iran and Syria?" Particularly I think Syria. I think they probably draw a distinction. What would you say? Because I think it's hard sometimes for people to understand why we wouldn't talk to people. And they've heard that over the last couple of months and you seem to be saying, "I don't want to talk to those people...
...they would suspend for two months. And I was asked, well, that's not nice*. Two months, let them suspend for two months, we'll get started. We'll see what happens. So we've tried to be actually very flexible and for reasons that I don't fully understand, but it may have to do with internal dynamics in Iran, they haven't been able to engage...
...want to follow up with one thing on that line because I think another thing that people might not understand is whatever else Americans might think of Iran, they'd say well, this is just Iran. I mean, are we - and they want to be a regional power in the area and they obviously have some tools to do that and they're getting more. But are we increasing their stature by making them into a bogeyman? I sometimes think their rhetoric suggests to people that, you know, well, they weren't that big a deal, but we sure...
...There’s no question in my mind that she is very able to work with scientists and to fully grasp scientific research and to understand what it takes to make progress in the sciences,” says Grosz, the Radcliffe science dean and artificial intelligence expert...