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Palin Shows Dangers of “Mavericks”
John McCain is a maverick! How can I tell? Well, aside from the fact that he tells people he picked Sarah Palin as his vice presidential choice. No one had thought of the half-term Alaskan governor. So he’s a maverick! (Although picking Joe Lieberman, something he thought was the best choice, and in the process [...]
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Palin Pick Not About Good Governance
The surprise vice presidential pick of Sarah Palin by John McCain told us a lot about the campaign, much of it concerning. The first and most obvious, is that most of his strategy has become trying to convince Hillary supporters to switch over to him. Rudy has been going on radio and television shows trying [...]
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One Man, One Dream.
Last day of the Olympics and I have handball gold medal tickets. I love handball, it’s fast paced, I understand the checking rules that leave me bemused with basketball and it’s in the Olympic Green. The sun is shining and the trip to the Green is pleasant enough. I have heard so much about the [...]
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Text of the Day
I texted a Chinese friend asking if she or her colleagues were interested in an extra pair of tickets I have for tomorrow’s soccer finals. The reply came back at 12:25PM on a Friday:
我们在睡觉 我一会问他们。
In other words, the office is napping, I’ll ask them in a bit. I love China.
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Big Olympic Fear Comes True
The Olympics have been a tremendous success and I have enjoyed them enormously. However, there is one huge fear that I have always held that seems to be coming true: this success of sports is going to be used to validate horrible public policy.
This came to light yesterday in two pieces. The first was an [...]
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Liu Xiang Critics Bring Shame to China
You did know Liu Xiang has been injured all year, right? The 2004 gold medalist in the 110 meter hurdles hasn’t been in top form in months. So why is it such a shock that, after the Chinese Team and the nation did all they could to force this poor guy to run through injury, [...]
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Things You Don’t Usually See in Beijing
A couple things I caught with my cell phone camera around Beijing this week:
Rickshaw now carries the great Brooklyn beer. It’ll cost you RMB35 plus a special Olympics 15% service fee, but it’s worth it to have a beer with flavor:
For the Olympics, some of the merchants in Ya-Show Market actually removed fake labels from [...]
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Where’s the Beef (or Any Food)?
I’ve been to three events now, and have had lots of fun at all of them, even though I was hugely disappointed by the US soccer team and flyweight boxer I was cheering for. The crowds are fun, the beer is dirt cheap and the Chinese fans are super friendly. One huge complaint that I’ve [...]
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Chinese Crowd Turns on Argentina
The first game of the soccer doubleheader last night was very disappointing, as the US got a red card 90 seconds in and lost 2-1 down a man the whole game. Nigeria’s band–75 dancing cheering and music-playing African imports–was a lot of fun, so hopefully I’ll get to seem them again at the quarters on [...]
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Understanding Sport and Religion
Through the lanes of Fitzroy to the beaches of Manly, along the ridges of the Glasshouse mountains, on the level tarmac of the Gunbarrel Highway the length of the Nullarbor plain to the turtle inhabited beaches of the Kimberly coast… once every four years a dull sound becomes a murmur and then a hum… [...]
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