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REPORTING FROM ... THE BEIJING BUREAU

By Anthony Tao

Monday, August 11, 2008

The Olympics weren't a day old when a shocking murder-suicide took some of the glitter off the previous night's Opening Ceremonies. The fatal stabbing of American Todd Bachman is a sober reminder that sometimes even all the preparation in the world can't pave over the cracks in human nature. The Games, however, are set up to be a foil against the ugliness of reality. The Olympics celebrate the distinctly human, from triumph to defeat and everything in between, and the first weekend had plen ...

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