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...some point, the West should consider the Olympic option. If the issue of Georgia's territorial integrity is not adequately resolved (by, for example, the deployment in South Ossetia and Abkhazia of a truly independent international security force replacing Russian troops), the U.S. should contemplate withdrawing from the 2014 Winter Games, to be held in the Russian city of Sochi, next to the violated Georgia's frontier. There is a precedent for this. I was part of the Carter Administration when we brandished the Olympic torch as a symbolic weapon in 1980, pulling out of the Summer Games in Moscow...
...suit to make it cling more precisely on his body. "That really helped the fitting for me," he says. That modification was eventually incorporated in the standard model which is being used by many of TYR's 200 sponsored athletes; others opted for custom-fit suits, an option that was offered...
There is also, of course, the option of surgery. Some orthopedists operate on the spine, but most of us, though trained in spine surgery, do not. That job is left to the orthopedists and neurosurgeons who are designated as "spine surgeons," and who restrict their practices solely to this procedure. Spinal stenosis operations are among the most common, the most expensive and the most feared, with lots of complications - paralysis, blood clots, infection, leaking of spinal fluid, intractable pain...
...does the story of Old Zhao end? He finally gets help from a member of his neighborhood committee, which gives him a pill that puts him in a coma for a month - an option also taken up by most of his neighbors. When he wakes up the Olympics are over and China has won more gold medals than any other country. "Not even a tiny accident had happened," the Internet story goes. "Foreigners were awed." Perhaps Old Zhao should have stayed awake and taken his chances. That's the attitude of Xu, the history professor, who has been traveling around...
Indeed, Musharraf's options are few. Since stepping out of his military uniform last November, and being shorn of his parliamentary base in February, his authority has sharply diminished. But there is one arrow he can still reach for in his fast-emptying quiver: the power to dissolve parliament. Described as "the nuclear option," it would plunge Pakistan into a fresh phase of deep uncertainty and could even lead to unrest in the streets as each half of the coalition maneuvered to win full control of Parliament. However, a new election is likely to further empty parliament of Musharraf...