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...fake-stuff-stalls, selling everything from North Face to Abercrombie to Coach to print shirts with lazy translations (one read, “Let’s Do The Dancing Team Beach Volleyball”). After the first week, these pseudo-Western products all begin to fade into the rest of the novelty that is Shanghai. I love that I bought the entire James Bond collection compressed onto three DVDs, but I’ve been trying to find something under the pirated, superficial materialism that has saturated far too much of Shanghai.In my search for authenticity, I quickly found...
...pledged to help Obama in his pursuit of a place in public life. But Obama didn't just turn the firm down. Minow, a former Federal Communication Commission chairman, recalls that Obama told him to take a seat: "You may not want to help me after you hear the rest of what I've got to say. I'm taking Michelle with me." (See pictures of Barack Obama's family tree...
...competitors occasionally degenerated into boos or, just as bad, half-empty stadiums - this despite vows that all Olympic tickets had been sold. By the end of the Closing Ceremony, it was clear: Yes, the world had been invited to watch Beijing 2008. But this was China's Games. The rest of the world was just a bystander...
...deal with, one Muslim and one Hindu. Any concessions it might offer to those protesting in Srinagar will provide fodder to the equally vociferous protesters in Jammu. What's more, the Hindu right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party has taken the issue beyond the state of J&K into the rest of India, and seems set to make it an election issue during the general elections expected at the beginning of next year. Due to the protests, the state elections have been put off until next year...
...have have only become more grueling. Keeping the youngest competitors from the rigorous world of international competition is supposed to protect them from dangerous, potentially life-long injuries. In that respect, age doping is no different from other illegal performance enhancing tactic - not only is it unfair to the rest of the competitors, it's most unfair to the athletes doing it to themselves...