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The Correspondent, July 1997

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ouldn't the Britísh have given some other island back to China? Like England?

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Problem solved: Hong Kong buys England PJ O'Rourke s/as back in torvn for his second

rzisit, and he left tl-rerr-r rolling in the isles, accordirr¡3 to contril>r-rtor Janet R.ae Brooks

back onthe Thatcherite course because

Beijing is way more market-oriented than Tony Blair," PJ O'Rourke told a sold-out audience on June 27 a¡ the last FCC luncheon under British rule.

"Plus the Chinese have extensive experience with settling royal farnily problems." O'Rourke, international affairs desk chief of Rolling Stonemagazine, is 50 years old and about to become a filst-time father. ("First acknowledged time," he says archly.) He claims he no longer has the "shameful morals" of young journalists who hope mortar rounds land on typhus hospitals. And

he thinks it would be nice to

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somewhere for once where nobody gets killed. But h-rckily none of that has affected his abiliry to spot the absurd, tweak the

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