We Don’t Want To Go To China

31st March 2008 with 1 Comment

Anne Applebaum at The Washington Post takes a critical look at some Olympic fallacies:
“The Olympics are a force for good.” Not always! The 1936 Olympics, held in Nazi Germany, were an astonishing propaganda coup for Hitler. It’s true that the star performance of Jesse Owens, the black American track-and-field great, did shoot some holes in [...]

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Agassi’s ‘obscene’ advance

23rd March 2007 with 15 Comments

Girl Friday at The Friday Project squirms over the latest news on the front of publishers’ advances:
Over $4 million for a book by a man whose personal fortune stands at around $162 million. Good God, like he needs the money. Maybe all of this obscene advance will go to his Preparatory Academy but my [...]

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