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Paul Nettleship, MONTREAL...
Chinese officials have repeatedly demanded that the Olympics not be politicized. But Olympic history--from the horrors of Munich in 1972 to the boycotts of the Games in Montreal, Moscow and Los Angeles--suggests that's a forlorn hope. "The Olympics are about human nature," says Bao Tong, a former adviser to Zhao Ziyang, the reformist Communist Party General Secretary at the time of the Tiananmen massacre in 1989. "You cannot separate the Olympics from human rights." You might suppose that the Chinese government would have thought of that before it entered its bid to host the games...
...performance, when the team was eliminated by Italy in the second round. Akpan and company commence group play against Korea Republic on June 30, followed by Poland on July 3 and Brazil on July 6. The U.S. will play its first two games at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal before traveling to Ottawa to face Brazil...
...tournament will kick off in Canada at the end of this month, with matches held in six sites around the country. The U.S. will play in Group D with Korea, Poland and Brazil, and begins play against Korea in Montreal on June 30. Matches will be broadcast on ESPNU, ESPN360.com and usoccer.com...
Milner, of Montreal, Quebec, will study children’s mental health at Oxford on his Rhodes scholarship...