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World media hails Beijing's perfect night

BEIJING-Beijing's Olympic opening extravaganza drew rave reviews on Friday from media around the world awed by rich displays of Chinese culture that eclipsed controversy that has surrounded the city's hosting of the Games."An eight became a perfect 10 in Beijing tonight", the website of the Sydney Morning Herald declared. With eight the luckiest number according to Chinese, it was no coincidence the Games started on August 8 at exactly 8 p.m."The world may never witness a ceremony of the magnitude and ingenuity as that which opens the 2008 Olympics," it said.A spectacle of sight and sound, the ceremony featured colourful dances, tightly choreographed drumming and barrages of fireworks up and down city streets.London's widely read Evening Standard ran the headline: "China Magic", and said the "most ambitious Olympics in history opens with most spectacular show"."For China, before a TV audience of 4 billion, this was the luckiest moment in a thousand years. It is, too, the start of something even bigger than an Olympic Games. It is, or at least is meant to be, the beginning of China's new era of greatness, witnessed and implicitly approved, by much of the leadership of the planet," wrote Andrew Gilligan from Beijing." Marvellous. Too marvellous," gushed Italy's Leonardo Coen on the website of the Rome-based daily La Repubblica (http://www.repubblica.it).for/ some, the show drew attention to China's strengths and the Olympic sports after a politically charged run-up to the Games that saw protests and accounts of human rights abuses grabbed headlines.
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