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...seconds before the end. Phelps didn't mind; the moment was emotional enough already, and he admitted to being too choked up to sing along anyway. The next time Phelps will potentially hear the anthem will be Monday when he goes in the 4x100m freestyle relay final...
...Dutch and French votes in 2005 - were indignant that Brussels' industry went unrecognized: "I see my boss, every day - you can't believe how hard she works!" says Cécile Astuguevieille, a French law student interning with a member of the European parliament. "National governments don't relay our work," agrees her friend Antoine Quentin, an MEP's assistant...
...those without an Olympic berth, just making it to Beijing could prove trying. Jean-Francois Julliard, deputy director of Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based press freedom group that was active in protesting during the international torch relay, says its members had their latest visa applications for China rejected. "They want the Olympic Games to be a big success without any demonstrations or any critical activities," he says. If protesters can't even make it into the country, then Beijing may find its protest zones blissfully complaint free...
...uses its sound track ironically. Don's wife Betty (January Jones) has taken up horseback riding as an escape, after learning that Don was cheating and--a more intimate betrayal--secretly getting reports from her psychiatrist on her therapy sessions. (She used a session on the couch to relay a message to Don that she knew about his skirt-chasing.) His former secretary, Peggy (Elisabeth Moss), is climbing the ladder as a rare female copywriter at Sterling Cooper, but at the cost of having given away her out-of-wedlock baby. The daddy, Pete (Vincent Kartheiser)--a weaselly rich...
...Autonomy is a demand familiar to the Tibetan activists nearby, mounting loudspeakers to relay speeches by some 200 pro-Tibet supporters who have arrived from all over India to join a 24-hour hunger strike. A bunch of cops stroll by, eyeing rosy-cheeked Tibetan girls, who studiously ignore them. Disdain for the cops is a common theme among the demonstrators at Jantar Mantar. "They hate us," laughs Rachna Dhingra, an activist with the International Campaign for Justice for Bhopal, which has been camping here since March to demand legal action against the corporations responsible for the 1984 Bhopal...