olympics

The Age: No medals for China in human rights

Quality Food
August 12, 2007

The awarding of the 2008 Olympic Games to China was an acknowledgment of the country's dynamic economic progress and its emergence as a world power to be reckoned with. Implicit in this decision was the understanding that China would prove itself worthy of the International Olympic Committee's vote of confidence…

A Tragedy to be Repeated?

Quality Food
June 27, 2007

In the summer of 1936, an Olympic Games of unprecedented grandeur was held in Berlin, Germany, amidst the sly grins of the Nazis, with Adolf Hitler making the opening speech. The flames of the relay torch, the first in the games' history, lit the sky throughout the Games, and in…