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...China and in the epic quest of swimmer Michael Phelps - it doesn't follow that there's even a speck of demand for Olympic programming in non-Olympic years. Given the already cluttered and competitive sports-television landscape, who wants to watch Taekwondo or table tennis on a Saturday afternoon in October? Or November? Or April? "The chances of an USOC channel moving the dial is very unlikely," says Ganis. "The audience is a niche of the niche...
...only takes Andrew an afternoon to befriend a like-minded, co-op-dwelling bisexual (played by the multitasking Shelton), who invites him over for an evening of drugs, dancing and experimental thinking, if not actions. Andrew persuades Ben to drop by to meet his new friend. "It's a little weird," Ben tells Anna on the phone, promising he'll be home in time for dinner. "The place is called Dionysus, and they aren't kidding." Wanting to please both friend and wife, he's torn. In the end, the desire to be as hip as he believed himself...
...when a flaming F-16 jet plowed into a parked C-141 at Pope Air Force Base. The cargo plane's 55,000 gallons of jet fuel erupted into a massive fireball, killing 18 of McChrystal's troops as they prepared for parachute jumps on a sunny North Carolina afternoon. (See pictures of the U.S. Army Reserve...
...during the oddly scheduled Friday afternoon meeting, crammed between the end of the Group of 8 meeting in L'Aquila, Italy, and Obama's departure for Ghana, the Pope had no intention of papering over differences on what the Vatican calls "life" issues, such as abortion and euthanasia. While reporters and photographers waited in a narrow Vatican corridor outside the library during the private audience, the Pope's personal secretary, Monsignor Georg Ganswein, disclosed that there was one item added to the list of gifts for Obama: "Dignitas Personae" ("The Dignity of a Person"), a Vatican document released in December...
Sometime in the afternoon of July 5, agents from the Shanghai State Security Bureau - the agency that pursues cases of espionage within China - arrested and detained Stern Hu, an Australian citizen who is a senior Shanghai-based executive for Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto. Three of Hu's deputies, who are Chinese, were also detained that day. On July 8, Rio confirmed that Hu and his colleagues had been detained on suspicion of selling "state secrets." The Chinese government confirmed the detentions only on July 9, and the Australian Consulate in Shanghai said its representatives would be able...