Yesterday I posted a rant about how the Olympics ought to be depoliticized and treated as a game rather than a political spectacle. Of course this in itself is a naive aspiration, since (as one of the commenters to my post rightly remarked) by its... ...full story at Shanghai Journal
from Shanghai Journal on Sun, Jul 27 2008
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