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China prepares to welcome world to 2008 Olympics

by John Boudreau [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)]

[21.Aug.07] :. BEIJING—Hosting the Summer Olympics is a coup for any country, but China regards the 2008 Beijing Games as nothing short of a historic marker of its return to glory. The Olympics is giving...

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