"For 12 years, I heard 'Don't Cry for Me Argentina, '" she says, laughing.

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With American ambassador to Malaysia John Malott on the piano and with a flower in her hair, Albright, 60, staged her own version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit Don't Cry for Me Argentina.

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All I did when they visited was cry in sympathy for their worry over me, or fall asleep, but after they left I missed them.

NEWYORKER: The Reptile Garden

This should not have surprised me, for I had never seen Father cry.

NEWYORKER: Naima

Give me liberty or send me to bed without supper is not a rallying cry for the defenders of freedom.

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Perhaps even more so because I have been listening to the dialogue about how to make America more post-racial -- mostly as it pertains to black and white culture -- for so long that it never occurred to me that an Asian immigrant family might cry foul when their son fell in love with an all-American girl like me.

CNN: His parents said, 'Not with a white girl'