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...government knew "from day one," says a senior Western diplomat, that "a successful bid for the Games would bring an unprecedented - and in some cases very harsh - spotlight" on China and how it is governed. On the other side, everyone from human-rights activists to independence-seeking dissidents in Tibet and Xinjiang - "splittists" in the vernacular of Chinese officialdom - knew that they would have an opportunity to push their agendas with the world watching. "Though the specific trigger for this in Tibet is still unclear, that it intensified so quickly is probably not just an accident," the Western diplomat says...
BIKESMITH Work stopped at the headquarters of Koga, the high-end-bicycle manufacturer, during the sprint event at the 2004 Athens Olympics. The Netherlands-based company had sponsored star cyclist Theo Bos, and even watching on TV, managing director Wouter Jager, 48, knew his boy was struggling...
...things like fly and drive and spritz ourselves with cans of Evian and more of an excuse to advocate an anticonsumerist, antiglobalization, anti-good-smelling-kitchen agenda. People were living in communes, crocheting their own Rasta hats and conserving office electricity by not getting a job long before they knew it was preventing global warming. So don't pretend that some of this environmentalism isn't about pushing a lifestyle. Somewhere someone is arguing that carbon emissions are somehow reduced by jam bands...
DESIGNER Perspective can be everything. In January, when the International Association of Athletics Federations ruled that Oscar Pistorius' artificial legs gave the sprinter an unfair edge in Olympic competition, prosthetics designer Kevin Carroll wasn't surprised. The industry, he says, "knew this was coming. And isn't it wonderful that it's here...
...resident has a single and no one lives in the common room. Senior housing has become the reward for enduring small sophomore and junior rooms, Quinn said.“Everyone that is a sophomore or a junior would be OK with the housing that they have if they knew that they would have the chance for better housing senior year,” he said.The new policy will reduce the number of quads and doubles, but will increase the number of triples in the House.“Basically the College’s policy is to guarantee everyone...