Qin shihuang , ancient china 's unifier , burned books and buried scholars alive .
秦始皇，古代中国的统一者，焚书坑儒。
Yesterday 's lunch had been obama 's suggestion , but served bush 's purposes too , enabling him to portray himself as above partisan politics : a unifier , just like obama .
Chastened , he maintained that he had been above the fray throughout , attempting to duplicate the role of national unifier played by king bhumibol adulyadej in neighboring thailand .
