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...there an item that we will never see Hello Kitty on? Dorothy Ho, Seattle Knives. The knife-killing rampage in Tokyo in June made me feel even more certain that we are right about not producing knives...
...been followed the day of the opening ceremony, but not arrested. Nevertheless, Li added, the authorities have been growing increasingly strict and may well remain so after the Games are over. "There used to be some sensitive events and days when we would be watched, such as June 4th," Li said, referring to the anniversary of the bloody suppression of protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989. "But now it's happening more and more. It seems to me that extra sensitivity will continue after the Olympics...
...also coincided with the deployment of 700 new French troops to Afghanistan - lifting France's total to around 2,600 - in response to American pleas to for reinforcements that left most European allies largely unmoved. The Taliban waylaying of the French paratroopers was single deadliest attack in Afghanistan since June, 2005, when 16 American soldiers were killed when their helicopter was shot down. At total of 183 alliance soldiers, 99 of them American, have been killed in Afghanistan this year, putting 2008 on pace to eclipse last year's record toll of 232 fatalities...
...Staff writer June Q. Wu can be reached at junewu@fas.harvard.edu...
Earlier this spring, Liu had disappeared from public view, nursing a sore hamstring that led him to pull out of a May race and triggered another injury to his Achilles tendon. By the start of the summer, the protective cocoon around the hurdler had reached epic proportions. In June, Dayron Robles, a bespectacled Cuban, shaved one-hundredth of a second off of Liu's world record. The Chinese was going into the Beijing Olympics as the underdog. (Robles easily won his Beijing heat less than an hour before Liu was scheduled to compete, while medal contender Terrence Trammell...