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	Dancing for Mao
clip-on-tie
5-6-2009 12:14 AM
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communist, mao, atheist, china
clip-on-tie says:
The conferees seemed to be trying to outdo one another in their professions of love for their nation's leader.
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5-6-2009 4:04 AM
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