Articles tagged "olympics"

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Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games

by Mike Schiller

[9.Jun.08] :. Seeing Sonic and Mario alongside each other in the same game is still a synapse fryer along the lines of seeing Mickey Mouse guest star as a cadaver on CSI. Something about it just...ain't...right.

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Arrest is another sign that China is quashing dissent before Olympics

by Tim Johnson [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[3.Apr.08] :. BEIJING - Like many patriotic Chinese, Hu Jia broke into tears when Beijing lost out to Sydney, Australia, for the right to host the 2000 Olympic Games, and was elated a year later when the city...

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China, Olympics, human rights and NBC: It’ll be a rocky square

by Rick Kushman [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[2.Apr.08] :. The Summer Olympics are still four months away, but we’re already getting a look at the kind of messy scene the world could see in China when the Games begin in August. We’re also...

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TRAVELOGUE: Beijing’s Olympic bubble

by Chris Welsch [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[10.Jul.07] :. Wang Hai Xia, who knows Beijing pretty well, had to ask directions twice to find the Dashanzi Art District in an industrial area outside the city’s third ring road. It didn’t look like...

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