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Chinese Legislature Criticizes US Congress Over Tibet Resolution (Comments)
has enough bullshit going on to worry about the friggen olympics. Most of them judges are blind ...
http://www.voiceofarizona.com/Chinese_Legislature_Criticizes_U-5225-5-20671.htm? ...
McCain Makes It Close Race (Comments)
Mcain couldnt run a kool aid stand in the desert,the other two bums are to disgraceful to even be in a race whether it be a three legged one or special olympics ... Really do you think any of these three are going to change the ...
http://www.voiceofarizona.com/McCain_Makes_It_Close_Race-5225-5-21501.htm?mult=0 ...
Rights Groups Praise Shunning of Olympics
"To link the Darfur issue to the Olympics is a move to politicize the Olympics and this is inconsistent with the Olympic spirit and will bear no fruit," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said on Jan ... The German company's official ...
http://www.voiceofarizona.com/Rights_Groups_Praise_Shunning_of-5225-4-12394.htm
Tibet Protests Intensify, 2 Killed
Protesters in Tibet's capital, Lhasa, burned buildings Friday in demonstrations against the run up to the Beijing Summer Olympics, a report said. Protesters asked their spiritual leader, the exiled Dalai Lama, to pressure Beijing to end brute ...
http://www.voiceofarizona.com/Tibet_Protests_Intensify_2_Kill-5225-1-16467.htm
World Record Falls at Eye-Opening Meet ; Coventry Breaks 18-Year-Old Mark in 200 Backstroke.
I think at the last Olympics a lot of people were paying attention to other issues that were surrounding it, and this is kind of what people will pay attention to at this Olympics. " The schedule changes haven't been so smooth for Coventry, who ...
http://www.voiceofarizona.com/World_Record_Falls_at_EyeOpenin-5225-2-12850.htm
Ex-Olympic Champ Jones Asks Judge for No Prison Time for Lying About Steroids
- Former Olympic champion Marion Jones says she has been punished enough and should not have to go to prison for lying about steroids and cheque fraud. In court papers filed on New Year's Eve, Jones' lawyers asked a federal judge to let her off ...
http://www.voiceofarizona.com/ExOlympic_Champ_Jones_Asks_Judg-5225-2-6233.htm
Spielberg Snubs Beijing Olympics Over Darfur Crisis
By James Macintyre The film director Steven Spielberg has pulled out of his role as an "artistic adviser" to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing over the Chinese government's refusal to pressurise Sudan into ending the humanitarian crisis in Darfur ...
http://www.voiceofarizona.com/Spielberg_Snubs_Beijing_Olympics-5225-4-12216.htm
Pelosi Says Olympic Boycott Harms Athletes
The Olympic Charter states that the Olympics should seek to foster 'respect for universal and fundamental ethical principles,' the California Democrat said in a statement ... However, I believe a boycott of the Beijing Olympics would unfairly ...
http://www.voiceofarizona.com/Pelosi_Says_Olympic_Boycott_Harm-5225-2-18584.htm
Tibet Protests Spreading
In Beijing, organizers of the Summer Olympics stressed the Tibet leg of the Olympic Torch relay will go ahead as planned, Xinhua reported ... Even as the Dalai Lama, who has been living in exile in India since 1959, appealed to world leaders ...
http://www.voiceofarizona.com/Tibet_Protests_Spreading-5225-1-17291.htm
Chinese Officials Say Foiled Terror Plots Targeted Olympics and Plane
By Christopher Bodeen, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING - Chinese police killed alleged terrorists plotting to attack the Beijing Olympics, while a flight crew managed to prevent an apparent attempt to crash a Chinese jetliner in a separate case just ...
http://www.voiceofarizona.com/Chinese_Officials_Say_Foiled_Ter-5225-1-15785.htm
Gatlin Gets Ban Reduced but Will Still Miss Olympics
The 25-year-old sprinter had a potential eight-year ban reduced to four, retroactive to April 2006, which means he will still be on the sidelines for the Beijing Olympics in August ... But because of the circumstances behind his first positive test - ...
http://www.voiceofarizona.com/Gatlin_Gets_Ban_Reduced_but_Will-5225-2-6137.htm
Tibet Protests Flare As China Cracks Down -- Olympics Official Says Torch Relay Will Go On
Meanwhile, a top Beijing Olympics official, Jiang Xiaoyu, executive vice president of the organizing committee, vowed that the unrest would not disrupt plans for the torch relay preceding this summer's games. One leg of the relay is to pass ...
http://www.voiceofarizona.com/Tibet_Protests_Flare_As_China_Cr-5225-2-17420.htm
EU Sports Ministers, Olympic Committees Strongly Oppose Boycott Over Tibet
" Russia also came out in support for the Games, arguing the Tibetan situation must not affect Olympics ... 8-24 Beijing ...
http://www.voiceofarizona.com/EU_Sports_Ministers_Olympic_Com-5225-2-16896.htm
Tibetan Religious Leader, Locals Condemn Lhasa Riots - Xinhua (Comments)
I agree Prom. ...
http://www.voiceofarizona.com/Tibetan_Religious_Leader_Locals-5225-1-16662.htm?m ...
China's Olympic Security Clampdown
Cameras abruptly cut away when a man carrying a black banner with handcuffs used to symbolise the five Olympic rings ran behind Liu Qi, the president of Beijing's Olympics organising committee, as he was giving a speech. The Paris-based ...
http://www.voiceofarizona.com/Chinas_Olympic_Security_Clampdo-5225-2-18126.htm







