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...presumed avoidance of a political context. ?Hamlet is a political play rife with plotting, intrigue and spying,? Sue Jones wrote in the Socialist Review. ?There is something rotten in Shakespeare?s Denmark, and we see Norway waiting in the wings to invade the state, which is collapsing through the weight of its own corruption. At one point Hamlet speaks of his distress at the ease with which thousands of soldiers are sent to their deaths. In the present political climate it seems particularly strange that Nunn chooses to virtually ignore this aspect of the play...
...Olympics celebrate the triumph of motion, the powerful upward thrust of a weight lifter, the gravity-defying spring of a pole vaulter, even the twirling toes of a flock of synchronized swimmers. So when Mongolia's sole female marathoner, Luvsanlkhundeg Otgonbayar, appeared at the entrance of a massive marble stadium unveiled in 1896 for Athens' first modern Olympics, it was impossible not to be taken aback by her almost imperceptible pace. More than an hour had passed since Japan's Mizuki Noguchi, a 40-kg wisp, had fluttered into the stadium, vomited and smoothed back her hair to accept...
...downcast. Yet the Bruneian's performance was surely more honorable than that of Uzbekistan's Olga Shchukina, who not only finished last in her qualifying group in the shot put but later tested positive for an anabolic steroid, or Iranian flag bearer Arash Miresmaeili, who deliberately missed his qualifying weight in the 66-kg judo event after discovering the draw pitted him against an Israeli...
...whistles and jeers, forcing the judges to revise his score up. He still only finished fifth. Incredibly, the judging controversy almost managed to overshadow the Games' other scandal: the level of doping. At least 22 athletes in a range of sports, from boxing to track and field to weight lifting, were thrown out of the Games for doping-related transgressions, the most in Olympic history. But antidoping officials saw the high toll as progress in their fight to clean up sports. Said Costas Georgakopoulos, who runs the doping lab at the main Athens Olympic complex that analyzed about...
...Israel, the victory was a salve for not only its painful history but also a politically fraught incident in the Games' first week. Iranian champion judoist Arash Miresmaeili, a medal favorite in the under 66-kg class, had been drawn to fight Israeli Ehud Vaks, but failed to make weight. Questions swirled about how a veteran like Miresmaeili could let this happen. Then he told a newspaper back home that it was no accident: "I refused to fight my Israeli opponent to sympathize with the suffering of the Palestinian people...