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...world's nuclear standoff with Iran is ratcheting ever upward. On Feb. 8, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (no diplomat he) matter-of-factly announced that Iran would soon begin enriching uranium for use in a "medical reactor." That means China will have to answer the central question that confronts it, which was embedded within Yang's diplo-speak: What actually is China's long-term interest in Iran? (See the top 10 Ahmadinejad-isms...
...what could be more natural than that? What could be more normal, in an age of ubiquitous media, than to take a stranger for a ride on your garbage truck and complain about your supervisors to the cameras? TV calls, and you must answer. It is as if, as a society, we had been singing in front of a mirror for generations, only to discover that now the mirror can actually see us. And if we are really lucky, it might just offer us a show...
After Saturday's race, I asked Ohno if he felt, in his mind, like he was the greatest Winter Olympian of all-time. He dodged. "That's a very hard question," he said. "How do you answer that? ... I never came into these Olympic games trying to break records. I do this sport because I love it. My goal here was to pour my heart and soul into these Olympic games. I have no regrets...
...been ready and prepared for this all year," he said after the race. But he admitted that he was exhausted after the downhill. Still, he says he didn't think strategize about the slalom. "I wasn't thinking about what I needed to do what win," he said in answer to my question. That's totally in keeping with Miller. It's all about the skiing. Even if he had a four-second lead going into the slalom, he said, he wasn't going to change tactics. Bode skis hard, period. "It really means something to me to ski that...
...show up to a figure-skating event, if you don't have the hardest jump, from the time you're a little boy, you are apologizing a little bit," says Wylie. "I remember being little and showing up at competitions, and everyone asked, 'What jumps do you have?' " What answer will skating have in another four years...