Word: stadiumitis
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...most Chinese media were celebrating Beijing's Olympics successes, a magazine named Southern Window - a highbrow biweekly with a circulation of 500,000 - broke from the pack. On the cover of the magazine's Aug. 11 issue, there is no photograph of the sparkling Bird's Nest stadium, no triumphant Chinese athlete fondling one of the country's 51 gold medals. Instead, there is an illustration of law textbooks and a teacher with a wooden pointer giving instruction to a businessman and a government official. The cover line: "Rule of Law Starts with Limitation of Power." Sounds boring? In China...
...whole show moves to the football stadium next door. Obama invited the world: "Everyone can come and join the party" - a party that finally started to put the pieces together...
...creeping worry in Denver that Obama's stadium gig - his planned Thursday acceptance speech to a crowd of 70,000 at Denver's Invesco field - could be ammunition for the McCain campaign's effort to paint Obama as a celebrity, Plouffe says, "We think this is something that should be welcomed and celebrated, the fact that we're opening this up to average Americans. It's been a great organizational tool. We think about states. [Colorado] is a big battleground state, and if it slips into the Obama column from the McCain column, his path just...
...Chinese were obsessed with medals. At the Closing Ceremony, as the athletes flowed into the stadium, the medalists were ushered in first. It was a situation at odds with the egalitarian, celebratory mood but very much in line with a results-obsessed nation whose mission was to impress and, by impressing, to dominate. The athletes, unused to being distinguished from their teammates, appeared to be flummoxed, unsure of how to occupy the vast amount of space in the center of the Bird's Nest. Even during the pop interludes, the athletic participants were subdued, choosing to stand or sit rather...
...Obama's worries. He has had ample time to write his remarks, and there is not a soul on his staff, among his friends or in the press corps who doubts that the convention's final act - Obama's address to 70,000 people in a football stadium - will be anything but a smash. That should leave plenty of time for Team Obama to worry about everything else...