yup, me too..... also, Readers Digest this month has a small article on how China is "buying" people out of their homes, demolishing them, and building new.... but the purchase price is not enough to afford to live in Beijing any more...
My uncle and a coworker went to China at the beginning of 2008 to check on the company manufacturing part of their products. The translator picked them up the airport and took them to the hotel with instructions to not leave the hotel, and if they wanted to go anywhere, they would have to ask for the translator to take them. Apparently this "nice" hotel had no amenities because they got yelled at by many people for going into the hotel's courtyard and were told to go to their room and stay there until the translator came back the next day.
The modern games have been about politics since Berlin, anyway. Look at Munich in the 70's and even the US vs. USSR hockey match up in the 80's. Can we just go back to naked oil wrestling and the discus like old times?
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Date: 2008-07-21 11:41 pm (UTC)also, Readers Digest this month has a small article on how China is "buying" people out of their homes, demolishing them, and building new.... but the purchase price is not enough to afford to live in Beijing any more...
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Date: 2008-07-22 12:46 am (UTC)My uncle and a coworker went to China at the beginning of 2008 to check on the company manufacturing part of their products. The translator picked them up the airport and took them to the hotel with instructions to not leave the hotel, and if they wanted to go anywhere, they would have to ask for the translator to take them. Apparently this "nice" hotel had no amenities because they got yelled at by many people for going into the hotel's courtyard and were told to go to their room and stay there until the translator came back the next day.
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Date: 2008-07-22 05:58 am (UTC)We seem to be right on schedule for a repeat performance. As I remember, they have 20-30 million more men than they actually need....
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