标题: BO Xilai and 18th Party Congress [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 8-30-2012 07:51 标题: BO Xilai and 18th Party Congress (1) Barbara Demick, Bo Xilai Issue Hangs Over China's 18th Party Congress. Los Angeles Times, Aug 30, 2012. http://www.latimes.com/news/nati ... g-china-bo-20120830,0,6315621.story
Quote:
"The government appears poised to remove him this week as a member of the National People's Congress, the Chinese equivalent of a parliament, during a five-day committee meeting that is supposed to conclude Friday. According to the congress' website, the meeting will deal with 'personnel changes' and 'legal matters;' political analysts believe that is code for Bo.
"But it is not easy to stage a vanishing act with a larger-than-life character like Bo. * * * he remains out of sight but not out of mind.
Note:
(a)
(i) party pooper (n; poop + -er; First Known Use 1954):
"a person who refuses to join in the fun of a party; broadly: one who refuses to go along with everyone else"
(ii) poop (vi; of imitative origin; First Known Use circa 1903):
"DEFECATE"
(b) CHEN Ziming 陈 子明
(c) HAN Deqiang 韩 徳强
(d) WANG Zheng (of Beijing Institute of Economics and Managemen) 北京经济管理干部学院教师 王铮 (a woman)