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...Staff writer Anna L. Tong can be reached at tong@fas.harvard.edu...
...that would seem a pretty forlorn hope. Chinese activists, like others before them, have wanted to use the world's attention on their nation to reduce the iron grip that politics and ideology have held over their lives for so long. "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." But this is not yet a view that has commended itself to the authorities. "You are very active these days, aren...
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...
...Staff writer Anna L. Tong can be reached at tong@fas.harvard.edu...
...find a quiet place to sit and think and get away from it all,” she told the Globe. “But we will never know…He did not leave a note.” —Rebecca M. Anders and Anna L. Tong contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Reed B. Rayman can be reached at rrayman@fas.harvard.edu...