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In a league of its own: sport and human rights
As London gets ready to host the Olympic Games and the Paralympics, it is not just sports stories that have been grabbing the headlines. Controversies are abounding, ranging from the politics of squad selection to the relevance of drugs bans, via missiles on the rooftops and the exclusive traffic lanes.
By Martin Polley | Notebook, Olympics, Opinion, Sport | Monday, 18 June 2012 at 3:00 am
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In my inbox today was an email from the online secondhand bookseller Abebooks, drawing my attention to its Weird Book Room. This “celebration of everything that's bizarre, odd and downright weird in books” is indisputably one of the marvels of the online world, and ensured that my entire morning was pleasurably wasted wandering the echoing [...]
By C J Schuler | Arts | Friday, 18 December 2009 at 2:18 pm
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