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...February, the rules mandating which sports are allowed and which are disallowed in the Olympics have little to do with the merits of the sports themselves. Like everything else in the Olympics, they are about two things and two things only—politics and the worldwide desire to win. This unpleasant reality is made most clear not by the sports that are played in Olympics but by those that are left...
...naturally want our country and our athletes to win. It is hard not to root for the American athlete in any event, even when one has never heard of him or her. All that matters is that they are wearing the American uniform. Paramount to this sentiment, however, is the sport itself. We should never let our patriotic desire to win the most medals—a count that proves little—alter the way we permit or prohibit certain sports...
...said. “It’s good experience, especially for the freshmen, to see how it is to play that sort of game…This will really give us a push to understand how much every game matters. Everyone’s excited to play and win this game...
...airways, while the dating game is analogized to a vicious “hunt.” Children are socialized to believe that the sexes are at odds: a fact testified to by the timeworn mantra “girls rule, boys drool.” When women win, men must lose, or so the logic goes; hence, feminism necessarily threatens both manhood and manliness. Only when we treat gender-based violence as a crime rather than a spectacle can we accept that sexual relations are not a zero-sum game—and restore our cultural sanity...
...Fonseka threw his hat into the ring for the Jan. 27 presidential elections, then considered just a formality for Rajapaksa, and provided the incumbent a real political challenge. Though he cobbled together a loose coalition of opposition, Muslim and ethnic Tamil political parties, Fonseka ultimately failed to win enough votes. The country's Tamil and Muslim minorities were largely disenchanted with both candidates, who hail from the country's ethnic Sinhalese majority...