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Chinese Director: “human rights” interfere with Westerners’ performances

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on 27 August 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Lauren Ruhland, 2008 MCPP intern
A decade ago, director Zhang Yimou’s films were acclaimed in the West but frequently censored in his native China. Since then, he’s fallen back into favor with the Chinese government and directed both the opening and closing ceremonies at the Beijing Olympics.  He told the Chinese press that the Beijiing [...]

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Are the Olympics fair?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on 25 August 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Kurt Bouwhuis, Mackinac Center Intern
After watching the Olympics, I was blown away by the performances of the athletes from around the world. World records were broken and individual athletes brought home multiple medals.
I do, however, feel that in the presence of all these accomplishments, we may be overlooking something. What about all the [...]

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Higher, Faster, Stronger

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on 6 August 2008 | 1 Comment »

-Hannah Mead, MCPP intern, 2008
I must admit my bias: I cared about gymnastics long before I cared about politics. I still drool over Olympics footage from the Atlanta games and, while I of course root for the U.S. I have nothing but sheer admiration for such athletes as Russia’s Alexei Nemov and Australia’s Ian Thorpe. [...]

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Improvements of Olympic Proportions

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on 9 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »

-Hannah Mead, MCPP Intern, 2008
Four years ago, I obsessively watched NBC’s frustratingly delayed, hand-picked and limited TV coverage of the Athens summer Olympics. When a necessary two-day trip pulled me away from civilization (read: Internet access), I made calls to the local paper to find out if Michael Phelps was still winning all his races. [...]

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