Sports
Behind London Olympics spectacular sports, a dark side
July 24, 2012While the 2012 Summer Olympics bring athletes together in spectacles of sport, the Games will also bring crippling debt, especially galling given the latest austerity measures in the UK.
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Welcome to the London lockdown
July 18, 2012Parliament is moving center-stage as crises of private-sector greed and incompetence are laid before select committees.
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Nuclear waste and other tales from London: Capitalism and the Olympics
June 26, 2012The Games have become a hopeful, yet often futile, source of economic revitalization and jobs for the host city or country, which instead often winds up in debt. Greece is case in point.
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This day in history: Muhammad Ali convicted for his anti-war stand
June 20, 2012On June 20, 1967, boxing champion and Olympic gold medal winner Muhammad Ali was convicted of draft evasion, sentenced to five years in prison, fined $10,000 and banned from boxing for three years.
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The 1981 Major League Baseball Players strike
June 12, 2012On June 12, 1981, a Major League Baseball strike began, forcing cancellation of 713 games.
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