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In a nightmarish 30 minutes, the world's track powerhouse is humiliated -- while amazing little Jamaica laps it again.
By Gary Kamiya
August 22, 2008
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I love the American beach volleyball champions -- and it isn't just because they have great derrieres.
By Gary Kamiya
August 22, 2008
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Usain Bolt's performance was the greatest individual athletic feat of our time.
By Gary Kamiya
August 21, 2008
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At the Olympics, you sometimes find yourself rooting for athletes because of their race. And that's OK.
By Gary Kamiya
August 20, 2008
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The scary "Sopranos" mobster showed up in Beijing, cunningly disguised as an American pole-vault coach.
By Gary Kamiya
August 19, 2008
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Their overheated, U.S.-obsessed reaction to Monday night's uneven-bars final made America look like a banana republic.
By Gary Kamiya
August 19, 2008
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It isn't enough that tall men get all the girls and win all the elections. After Usain Bolt's ridiculous world-record sprint, now we can't even run away from them anymore.
By Gary Kamiya
August 18, 2008
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Yes, their feats are unimaginable -- but they pull us up with them.
By Gary Kamiya
August 15, 2008
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The two American gymnasts were bit players in the men's all-around finals. But NBC treated them like Hamlet.
By Gary Kamiya
August 14, 2008
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Bush looked weirder than he ever has during his Bob Costas interview -- but he made more sense. Too bad it's too late.
By Gary Kamiya
August 13, 2008
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In the men's team gymnastics final, no one lost.
By Gary Kamiya
August 12, 2008
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A trash-talking frog is croaking today.
By Gary Kamiya
August 11, 2008
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In their different ways, the Olympic events on the dazzling first full day in Beijing showcased the ultimate athletic feat: Overcoming fear.
By Gary Kamiya
August 10, 2008
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Meet the four scribblers, including author John Krich and former national gymnastics champ Jennifer Sey, who'll bring you Salon's take on the games.
By King Kaufman
August 7, 2008
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Every Olympics is a miniature world -- and leaves you feeling more hopeful about the human race than you were before.
By Gary Kamiya
August 5, 2008
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McCain's attack on Obama as a defeatist is right out of the Karl Rove playbook. But here's why it won't work.
By Gary Kamiya
July 29, 2008
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The Eternal City is too vast and ancient to grasp, and the harder you try, the more it slips away. So you have to dream your way into it.
By Gary Kamiya
July 22, 2008
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The blogosphere's reaction to the New Yorker cover proves that the Bush era has killed a lot of liberals' sense of humor. And that's not funny.
By Gary Kamiya
July 15, 2008
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To avoid humiliating a once-great party and subjecting America to more painful glimpses of McCain's ideas and teeth, the mercy rule must be invoked now.
By Gary Kamiya
June 17, 2008
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Barack Obama's candidacy spells the end of the one-drop rule and the beginning of a painful but necessary exploration of the real meaning of race in America.
By Gary Kamiya
June 10, 2008
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The GOP and establishment media are attacking Barack Obama for being willing to talk to "terrorists" -- but many parties, including Israel, are doing just that.
By Gary Kamiya
June 3, 2008
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From the overly decorous Gore team to the bought-and-paid-for Supreme Court, HBO's enraging docudrama shows the Florida recount like it was.
By Gary Kamiya
May 23, 2008
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Why the press gives McCain a pass for consorting with batshit holy men, but condemns Obama to talk-show hell for the same sin.
By Gary Kamiya
May 20, 2008
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The Obama-McCain contest will hold up a mirror to America's soul.
By Gary Kamiya
May 13, 2008
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Sick of right-wing Jews speaking in their name, progressive American Jews have launched J Street to change the way the game is played in Washington.
By Gary Kamiya
April 29, 2008
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