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SEP 17, 2008
Supreme Court’s Global Influence Is Waning
The New York Times
Judges around the world have long looked to the decisions of the United States Supreme Court for guidance, citing and often following them in hundreds of their own rulings since the Second World War. But now American legal influence is waning. Even as a debate continues in the court over whether its decisions should ever cite foreign law, a diminishing number of foreign courts seem to pay attention to the writings of American justices.
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SEP 8, 2008
Chinese Protester Freed After Olympics Detention
AP
A Chinese woman detained for a month after protesting about being evicted from her home ahead of the Olympics has been freed, the woman and her son said Monday. Zhang Wei said she was released on Saturday on condition that she keep her cell phone on at all times so police can contact her and order her back to jail if necessary.
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SEP 5, 2008
Paralympic Boon to China’s Disabled
Los Angeles Times
If the Summer Olympics were a coming-out party for China as a whole, the Paralympic Games will be an even greater event for the country's disabled. In preparation for the 11-day international competition that opens Saturday, Beijing is being retrofitted with ramps for wheelchairs and street crossing signals for the blind. The city also has acquired 2,000 "kneeling buses."
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SEP 1, 2008
Shiny Olympics Shouldn’t Disguise China’s Dark Reality
Turkish Daily News
China’s horrible domestic human rights track record, extremely dark and aggressive involvement in Africa and the dodgy backing of all possible dodgy countries of the world remain unshaken
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AUG 25, 2008
China Blocks iTunes Over “Songs Of Tibet” Album
Ebrandz
China may be open to the Olympics, but the government closed off access to the popular iTunes Web site in the country, apparently in response to reports that dozens of Olympic athletes were among those who had gone there to download an album promoting freedom for Tibet.
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