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(On both sides this spat was rather paradoxical, if one remembers that de Gaulle wanted to diminish as much as possible the powers of the UN, to which he contemptuously referred to as a "thingamajig", and that America owes over a billion dollars in past due contributions to the UN.)

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By 'real magic,' people mean miracles, thaumaturgical acts, and supernatural powers.

These people, by their actions, were able to do what the powers that be, North and South, could not or would not do.

The solar power of all the factory centers and all the industrial zones with their light roofs powers the city.

Whereas we tend to view it as an intruder, a stranger, certainly an organ whose powers need to be limited or defined and constrained, the Chinese don't see the state like that at all.

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