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"Olympics Chiefs Ask Bush To Pull Campaign Ad" (ZNet Blog)

Homo Ludens (ZNet Blog)Yesterday, one of the “feel-good stories” of the Athens Olympic Games, indeed, one of the “games’ most captivating stories,” drew to its uneventful conclusion, when the Iraqi national soccer team ("football," as the sport is known in the more civilized parts of the world) lost in the bronze medal round of the tournament to the Italian team, by a score of 1-0.

ZNet Commentary: A Thousand Dusty Codicils By the time we have lost our freedoms, we will have forgotten what they were. The silence with which the new laws were greeted last week suggests that the forgetting has already begun.

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But don't let the gold, silver, or soft-core sexism fool you: These Greek Olympics arrive bathed from head to toe in blood and dust.

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ZNet Commentary: Human Rights Horrors in Haiti: "