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Right before he dove into the pool the morning of Aug. 13, Michael Phelps got a text message from one of his buddies back home. "Dude, it's ridiculous how many times a day I have to see your ugly face," it read. At the end, his friend left simple instructions. "It's time to be the best ever...
...dozen Chinese gathered around to watch. One woman with a Chinese flag painted on her cheek giggled with her friend as Yoko spoke. A short while later, one man called Yoko a "hoodlum," while another said loudly that the assembled journalists were "shameless." The security guards bundled off the demonstrators to a small office. A British television reporter, John Ray of Independent Television News, was also taken away in a police van. Ray says the police have accused him of trying to unfurl a Tibetan flag, which he denies. Ray held his press pass out the window...
Suffice to say that Vladimir Yakunin - and no doubt his friend, the Prime Minister - didn't approve, and that disgraceful moment sticks in his craw to this day. The Russians are back - and they are not buffoons, thank you. Now, oil and gas wealth plus increasing military might are going to right what they perceive as the humiliations of the recent past. The New Cold War, as Ed Lucas writes...
...Britons over a certain age will recall with a shudder the surreal and sexy details of that story from the winter of 1977. The 27-year-old McKinney was accused in court, along with a friend, Keith May, of abducting 21-year-old Mormon missionary Kirk Anderson from a church in a London suburb and taking him to a cottage in Okehampton, Devon in the southwest of England. There, said Anderson, he was chained to a bed and forced to have sex with McKinney for three days. McKinney, once a Mormon herself, was said to have formed a crush...
...make no mistake, this crowd is linked, inextricably and powerfully, to the elderly power brokers dining, rather more formally, 30 miles to the south. In China, respect for your elders, for your forbears, is even more important than making money. And as Robin Li, the Baidu CEO, told a friend, parties like the one at the Commune last night don't arise out of thin air. They are not a historical accident. Nothing about China, in the late summer of 2008, was preordained. Li, a celebrity in China for his success as well his good looks, understands this acutely...