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...Suva, Fiji, in 1972. As "each and every one of our countries aspire to economic prosperity, we are all deeply conscious that the quality of life is what matters in the end," Fiji's then-Prime Minister, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, told delegates. In the 36 years since, the event has opened itself up to cross-cultural exchange (Townsville, 1988), contemporary art (Noumea, 2000) and, most recently, the arts of the northern Pacific (Palau, 2004), to become what the Secretariat of the Pacific Community's Linda Petersen calls "the most important cultural event of the region." This year's theme...
...running for Senate were an Olympic event, Franken would win. If it were a battle of wills or a name-recognition poll or some kind of nerdy trivia battle, he'd win those too. Even if it were just a question of having people agree with your policies, he'd win a Senate seat in the state, where Barack Obama is ahead of John McCain. But getting elected means making people believe you can relate to them, and that's why Franken - writer, actor, comedian, talk-show host and longtime denizen of Saturday Night Live - is running behind Republican Senator...
...popular game throughout Europe and, to a lesser extent, American gym classes. But handball is the only sport in which the Americans don't have a single Olympian. (Rhythmic gymnastics - you know, the one with the ribbons and balls - also has no Yank participant. But since it's an event within gymnastics, it doesn't count as its own Olympic sport...
...ostracized internationally. This should be a matter of considerable concern to Russia's new business élite, who are increasingly vulnerable to global financial pressure. Russia's powerful oligarchs have hundreds of billions of dollars in Western bank accounts. They would stand to lose a great deal in the event of a Cold War-style standoff that could conceivably result, at some stage, in the West's freezing of such holdings...
...Olympics in Hong Kong have not gone off without incident. At the inaugural event on Aug. 9, Christina Chan, a young woman sitting in the front row of the stadium, was smothered by security staff after trying to unveil a banned Tibetan flag she and a friend had snuck past the guards. They hauled her out of the arena as some members of the crowd jeered and chanted for her to leave - her dissident act cut short before it even started. Another man wearing an anti-Olympics t-shirt was barred from even entering the venue, while a human rights...