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Beijing’s Olympic Funk

Beijing’s Olympic Funk

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Jul 18, 2008
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Two rather odd

pieces of news were circulating in China last week, at a time when

increasingly nervous authorities grow more prudish about the

possibility that somebody, somewhere, will do something that

embarrasses the country in advance of the US$42 billion Olympic

Games, which are due to start in August.

The first,

carried by Xinhua as a photo story, was of…

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