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Even on the most difficult issues, like the genocide in Sudan, where China has supplied military hardware and bought half the country's annual oil output, Beijing is slowly changing. From refusing to discuss Khartoum's atrocities, China now backs the joint peacekeeping force in Darfur. With such reforms, China...
In light of the increasing scrutiny over China’s human rights record, the Harvard College Human Rights Advocates hosted a panel discussion yesterday in Sever Hall that addressed the history of human rights in China, the current conflict in Tibet, and the perception of a Western bias against...
Fair enough. But is it really too much to ask athletes to make an effort to become informed, or to form an opinion on the controversies that will inevitably envelope the Beijing Games? "It seems like such an obvious answer to me," says Miranda. "Being part of the conversation doesn...
Unfair or not, the Olympics have never been simply about sports. Just ask any member of the 1980 U.S. team whose lifelong Olympic dream died when President Jimmy Carter ordered a boycott of the Moscow games to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. And the 2008 Games in Beijing promise...
The early returns suggest that America's best are unlikely to heed the protesters' calls. At the U.S. Olympic Committee's biennial pre-Games media summit in April, swimmer Michael Phelps, Team USA's most visible and celebrated Olympian, was asked if he felt any responsibility to speak out against...