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The United States and Europe's mature democracies may function well enough with the "checks and balances" of divided government (though the Republicans' bid to impeach President Clinton a few years ago might suggest otherwise), but in Asia the failure to bestow executive and legislative powers on a single institution is usually a terrible drawback.

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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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