Absurdity, Allegory and China

Under the headline “Wary U.S. Olympians Will Bring Food To China” a story in the February 9, 2008 NYT reported that a caterer working for the US Olympic Committee, whose job is to feed the US athletes while they are in Beijing, did some local Beijing shopping in preparation for the Games and found a [...]

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Behold, throughout the heavens There shone a holy light There are historic moments that I, like most of us, wish I could have witnessed, but only as a fly on the wall; being a participant removes any illusion of objectivity. And some of those favorite “moments” were desperately dangerous situations that allowed a fly a [...]

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