Eight months before Mr Xi took over, a fellow member of the ruling Politburo, Bo Xilai, was purged; ostensibly for corruption and abuse of power but also, many observers believe, because he threatened Mr Xi's future grip on power.
But I did go to temple for this most holy day, with over 150 fellow members of the tribe.
To that end, Mr. Rangel, the New York Democrat who would take over the Ways and Means Committee, and fellow members of the Congressional Black Caucus are undertaking an aggressive voter education and motivation campaign that would be bankrolled with $2.5 million from a concert in Washington this month.
For helping to engineer the spectacular rise in oil prices over the last year, fellow members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries have rewarded him with the group's presidency.
But the people he's really putting one over on are his fellow members of the top one per cent, who pay, on average, almost thirty per cent of their income to the federal government.
That would ensure that a Fujimori presides over the swearing in of fellow members of Congress and whoever is elected president.
Fellow members fawned over their male rites of passage, but it felt wrong to me.
I receive a lot of support from the organization and I am always excited to communicate with fellow members all over the world.
Only residents were able to move in and out of the zone, which was a measure not to prevent refugees from entering, but to keep some of the estimated 20,000 Druze living in Israeli-held Golan from trying to cross over to Syrian to help fellow members of the minority group.
Over the past six months, I and my fellow members of the BBC Trust have been carrying out one of the regular, in-depth reviews we undertake of each of the BBC's services, on Radio 2 (alongside its sister station 6 Music).
