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Chinese officials have repeatedly demanded that the Olympics not be politicized. But Olympic history--from the horrors of Munich in 1972 to the boycotts of the Games in Montreal, Moscow and Los Angeles--suggests that's a forlorn hope. "The Olympics are about human nature," says Bao Tong, a former adviser to Zhao Ziyang, the reformist Communist Party General Secretary at the time of the Tiananmen massacre in 1989. "You cannot separate the Olympics from human rights." You might suppose that the Chinese government would have thought of that before it entered its bid to host the games...
...player, cannot access my fantasy football league, no YouTube, cannot read or write blogs, and cannot get on Xbox Live 360." Another Hong Konger, 32-year-old consultant Josh Tse, reported feeling "some pain, some hollowness" after he found himself unable to update his blog, Cha Xiu Bao...
...restaurants and bars offer them. Paris remains the best place on earth to sample one. Should you be there, visit La Muse Vin in the Bastille, Le Verre Volé near the canal St. Martin and Le Baratin in the 20th arrondissement. In New York City, Yuva, Bette and Bao 111 in Manhattan and Ici and 360 in Brooklyn feature natural selections on their wine lists. Good representatives can also be found at Crémant and Le Pichet in Seattle, the Slanted Door in San Francisco and Lou in Los Angeles...
...They have airbrushed Zhao's name from history and from real life." BAO TONG, aide to purged Chinese leader and reformist icon Zhao Ziyang, criticizing the official silence that greeted Zhao's death last week. The government eventually agreed to allow a low-key memorial service...
...most vibrant private economy but also the lowest level of nonperforming bank loans in the country. Permitting informal lending allows state-run banks, which provide most of their loans to state-owned enterprises, to "focus on bigger, reliable companies, [while] smaller ones finance themselves in other ways," says Bao Sihu, head of the CBRC in Yuhuan county, home to dozens of private factories specializing in valves...