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		<title>They Don&#8217;t Need to Play Like Europeans</title>
		<link>http://christophercolaninno.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/they-dont-need-to-play-like-europeans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watching the Team USA Vs. Australia Olympics Basketball game I was reminded of my standing theory that Basketball analysis is loaded with racial baggage. For a quick example the entire idea that NBA players don&#8217;t play defense seems like a back door way of calling black players lazy show offs. As the announcers pointed out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christophercolaninno.wordpress.com&blog=1800102&post=734&subd=christophercolaninno&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>China and the Dalai Lama Meet</title>
		<link>http://christophercolaninno.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/china-and-the-dalai-lama-meet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 15:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post is reporting the Government of China and the Dalai Lama are meeting:
BEIJING, May 5 &#8212; Chinese officials and representatives of the Dalai Lama resumed talks Sunday for the first time in nearly a year and agreed to hold another round of discussions at a later date, sources told the New China News [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christophercolaninno.wordpress.com&blog=1800102&post=353&subd=christophercolaninno&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Empower Civil Society Aboard, Ignore Civil Society at Home</title>
		<link>http://christophercolaninno.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/empower-civil-society-aboard-ignore-civil-society-at-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is Nina Hachigian of the California for the Center for American Progress discussing UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown&#8217;s decision to boycott the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. 
America has so little leverage to influence human rights in China that it is supremely tempting to hold the Games hostage. Yet the only proven methodology [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christophercolaninno.wordpress.com&blog=1800102&post=334&subd=christophercolaninno&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Human Rights Vs. Handball</title>
		<link>http://christophercolaninno.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/human-rights-vs-handball/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Commenter Jared writes about my hope for a European lead boycott of the Summer Olympics
All this does is hurt the athletes. If you want to boycott the country, then boycott the country, but don’t hurt people who have trained their entire lives for this.
At the risk of having a crazed dude at a keyboard moment [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christophercolaninno.wordpress.com&blog=1800102&post=272&subd=christophercolaninno&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Euro-cott 2008?</title>
		<link>http://christophercolaninno.wordpress.com/2008/03/23/euro-cott-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So it looks like there is some movement in the direction of a European lead boycott of the Beijing Olympics according to the Associated Press.
The president of the European Parliament said European countries should not rule out threatening China with an Olympic boycott if violence continues in Tibet.
&#8220;Beijing must decide itself, it should immediately negotiate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christophercolaninno.wordpress.com&blog=1800102&post=259&subd=christophercolaninno&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Which &#8220;We&#8221; Should Boycott</title>
		<link>http://christophercolaninno.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/which-we-should-boycott/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Short list of people that are discussing boycotting the 2008 Olympics because of violence in Tibet

Jack Cafferty
Some Olympians (According to Wikipedia)
One of my co-workers

Before the violence in Tibet I had been a proponent of the idea that a boycott would heedlessly antagonize China. But it&#8217;s starting to feel like not boycotting would be a de [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christophercolaninno.wordpress.com&blog=1800102&post=248&subd=christophercolaninno&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tibet</title>
		<link>http://christophercolaninno.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/tibet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a good post by James Fallows on the recent violence in Tibet and how China is reacting to it. However I don&#8217;t think the opening sentence here is supported by the rest of the post. (Emphasis added below)
1) In judging popular reaction in China to this episode, bear in that mind few ordinary [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=christophercolaninno.wordpress.com&blog=1800102&post=246&subd=christophercolaninno&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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