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...other lesson from Canada is that you can go too far. The country's "Own the Podium" initiative - a $110 million program designed to put Canada on top of the medals table - generated almost as much criticism as podium finishes. The plan limited rivals' access to facilities like the sliding and speedskating tracks, prompting protests from foreign competitors. Some even suggested that it contributed to the tragic death of Georgian luge competitor Nodar Kumaritashvili. Others claimed that it heaped too much pressure on the home nation's athletes. London chair Coe has defended the initiative in recent days...
...film. You're always critical of your own work, and the more time that goes by from when you did it, you start saying, "Well, now, I'd do this differently or that differently." But it all works very well together and you can't think you'd go back to change something because you're not the same person anymore and the same stuff that I see in it that drives me crazy is what others think made the character real. That's who I was at that moment in time. So I'm happy with...
...police and security forces, according to al-Mojjma. "It's all sectarian," says the sheik, whose headquarters are a concrete hut with no furniture on the eastern edge of Baquba. "The government doesn't trust us because we are Sunni. [But] if they push us any more, we are going to explode." He is particularly worried about what will happen once the U.S. pulls out of Iraq. "Iran will take us," he says. "Everyone in the region will try to occupy Iraq." But what makes the sheik even angrier is the possibility that a future government in Baghdad might turn...
...Constitución [a town north of Concepción on the coast], they told me that two weeks earlier, the local firefighters ran an earthquake rehearsal," she said. "They taught the population that if they could not stand up while it was trembling, it meant they had to go up into the hills because there was the possibility of a tsunami. So in that town this situation happened and they went up into the hills, and many lives were saved...
Angelo Briones, who serves in the Chilean navy, was so distressed by the descriptions of looting in e-mails from his Concepción-based family that he decided leave his post to "go protect my family." While waiting for a space on a transport plane in Santiago, he told TIME, "I told my boss that there was nothing he could say. My family is my blood. I have to go be with them. Thank God he gave me permission. It is a disaster zone there. I am very scared...