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...bring back the gold medal in basketball are so compelling, yet so different, that we decided to do two TIME covers to show the breadth of our Olympic preview, which begins on page 44. And as evidence of our global reach, TIME's Asian-edition cover features Chinese athlete Liu Xiang, who four years ago became China's first male ever to win track-and-field gold and now is a vessel of 1.3 billion Chinese people's hopes. The three are joined by 97 other athletes, including some familiar names like Michael Phelps and many others that...
...cream is delicious," said Siyuan Liu '11, who had more than one bowl of his favorite flavor, Triple Chocolate Swirl, while on a break from working in his research lab in the Bauer Center for Systems Biology...
...Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer are authors of The True Patriot. www.truepat.org
What we need going forward is third-way patriotism, a new patriotism that blends the faith of our fathers with, as Lincoln said, the unfinished work remaining before us. That new patriotism, as Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer write in The True Patriot, means "appreciating not only what is great about our country but also what it takes to create and sustain greatness." That formulation is what this campaign should be about: defining America's course in the 21st century. The candidates may have different views on what makes us proud to be Americans, but they share a belief...
Since Athens, Liu has been marketed as a national hero, but sports officials have taken a chunk of his advertising revenues as payback for developing his career. Although the Shanghai native's famous grin beams from thousands of billboards across China, he appears less cheery these days. He has been publicly chastised by sports officials for allowing "social activities"--a catchall for anything from commercial shoots to the occasional night of karaoke--to get in the way of his training. The pressure to win is almost unimaginable: a recent Internet survey found that the Chinese public's No. 1 Olympics...