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To much applause, he deplored the fact that "10 million children live within just four miles of a toxic waste dump" (four miles ?) and urged that we make it illegal "even to attempt to pollute" (whatever that means).
But while journalists feel they must sneer at the "same old" character of the handsome wearable designs, clients and buyers greet them with applause.
The Times seems to take the applause as crowd approval of Jiang, but isn't it more likely that the crowd was applauding the power of raucous American protest instead?
"Restoring honesty to our political system is the gateway through which all other political reforms must pass," he said here in a speech at the Reagan Library, to sustained applause and a loud cry of "Amen" from a man in a skirt and sneakers who later identified himself as the leader of "Evangelical Christian Democrats for McCain."
The "applause" and "laughter" ( NYT ) or cheers ( WP ) came when Jiang said his current trip to the U.S. gave him a more specific understanding of American democracy than he'd had previously.