Zhao Wei is the vice dean of the school of political science and law of Shenyang University. “People choose the Internet mainly for efficiency,” he told China Daily yesterday. “The Internet will play more important role in helping officials handle public grievances(委屈)better in the face of Internet users in China,” he said.
The number of Chinese netizens (网民) increased 16.2 million in the first quarter of this year, (reach) 316 million, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China.
“Some government staff shouldn't take a hard line against people who complain in various ways. , they need to realize the positive side of complaints. That is to say, online complaints should be viewed a cushion (缓冲) against some social problems rather than a nuisance (讨厌的东西),” Zhao said.
He also noted some mass incidents can (avoid) if people get timely responses.
Zhao's department (begin) a course earlier this year, was designed to train (profession) who work for the government departments that receive public grievances via calls, letters, and Internet messages or face to face complaints.
Legend has it that President George Washington never told a lie. Still, he was not perfect. A library in New York has a document to prove it. According to a written record of the library, Washington checked out two books on October 5, 1789, and never brought the m back.
More than 220 years have gone by since Washington borrowed the books, and a lot has changed since then. Back in 1789, there was no Washington, D. C. The U.S. capital was New York City, and that was where the President lived. There was only one place in the city to borrow books, the New York Society Library. It was there that Washington checked out the two books that were never returned. Washington had been President for just five months when he borrowed the books. One book was about international relations, and the other focused on lawmaking, which helped with his new job.
The librarian wrote down the titles, the dates and the name of the borrower. Washington was listed simply as “President”.
Under the rules of the library, the books should have been handed back by 2 November that same year, and their borrower would have been faced with fines of a few cents a day ever since. Over time, Washington's fine grew and grew. Today, the library is owed about 200,000 dollars for the two missing books. “We're not actively concerned about the overdue fines,” the head librarian Mark Bartlett said. “But we would be very happy if we were able to get the books back.”
As for Washington's reason for failing to return the books he borrowed, we may never have an answer. Perhaps he was too busy and just forgot about them. Maybe they were lost. Even though he were alive today, Washington might prefer to keep the truth a mystery. After all, it was he who famously said, “It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”
1.吴健雄，美籍华裔物理学家，1912年5月31日生于江苏省太仓县；
2.1936年赴美国留学，1940年获美国加利福尼亚大学博士学位，之后又获得许多美国著名高等学府的博士学位；
3.她长期从事物理学研究并在美国及国际上多次荣获大奖；
4.吴健雄生前关心中国科技事业的发展, 从1973年起多次来中国讲学，1992年在东南大学建立了吴健雄实验室；
5.1997年2月16日，吴健雄女士因心脏病逝世。
On May 29, 1973, Thomas Bradley, a black man, was elected mayor of Los Angeles. Los Angeles is the third largest city in the United States, with a population of three million. About sixteen percent of the city's population are black.
News of this election appeared on the front pages of newspapers everywhere in the United States. Here is how one major newspaper reported the event.
LOS ANGELES ELECTS BRADLEY MAYOR UNSEATING YORTY
BLACK WINS 56% OF VOTES
Bradley called his victory over Yorty "the fulfillment of a dream". During his childhood and youth, people had kept telling him, "You can't do this, you can't go there, because you are a Negro." Nevertheless he had won a decisive victory over a man who had been won 43.7 percent.
Los Angeles voters have had many opportunities to judge. Thomas Bradley had to form an opinion of him. The son of a poor farmer Texas, he joined the Los Angeles police force in 1940. During his twenty-one years on the police force he earned a law degree by attending school at night. He was elected to the city council years ago.
At the time of the Los Angeles election, three other American cities already had black mayors, but none of these cities had as large a population as Los Angeles. Besides, the percentage of blacks in those other cities was much larger. Cleveland, Ohio, had thirty-six percent black when Carl Stokes was elected mayor of Cleveland in 1967. In the same year Richard Hatcher was elected mayor of Cary. In Newark, New Jersey, sixty percent of the population were black when Kenneth Gibson was elected in 1970. Thus election of a black mayor in those cities was not very surprising.
In Los Angeles, thousands of white citizens voted for Thomas Bradley because they believed he would be a better mayor than the white candidate. Bradley had spent forty-eight of his fifty-five years in Los Angeles. Four years ago, Bradley lost mayoral election to Yorty. This time Bradley won.
