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...last thing the Chinese government wants is a doping scandal on home soil. About $20 billion is being spent on Olympics-related preparations. But even though seven years of Olympics priming has only heightened Chinese hopes for domination, sports officials in recent weeks have scaled back expectations of a record gold-medal harvest. In March, the deputy head of the Sports Ministry cautioned that China didn't expect to surpass the U.S. The modesty may have been tactical. For Athens, Chinese sports officials put their target at just 20 gold medals. In fact, China won 32. Nearly 60% of China...
Novels, movies and TV--not to mention reality--have trained us to expect the other shoe to drop: the childhood abuse, the secret self-loathing, the I've-been-to-paradise-but-I've-never-been-to-me regret. It never does. Oh, Belle/Hannah's life is more complicated than she first lets on. She hides her work from her family and her best friend/ex-boyfriend Ben (Iddo Goldberg). She has vague literary ambitions and is aware that hers is a job without a long future. And despite the high-class, clean-and-safe veneer, she has to call her agency...
...missed an opportunity to promote a critical need: for average Americans to get involved with their local community emergency-response team. Too many people still expect others to take care of them when first responders are overwhelmed in a large disaster. Don Jones, SAN JOSE, CALIF...
...gets a pass for his association with radicals Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn because others associate with them [June 9]? I am from the Deep South, where a lot of folks associated with KKK members and said "everybody else does." That was wrong, and this is wrong. We should expect better judgment from someone vying for the presidency. Chuck Rainey, AUSTIN, TEXAS...
...miss the steady thaw in McCain's once frosty relationship with Romney as the former Massachusetts governor throws himself - and his formidable fund-raising operation - into campaigning for the man who beat him. And Hillary Clinton's supporters - starting with her husband - are letting it be known that they expect Obama to give her serious consideration...