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	A Place in the Sun Does China deserve to host the 2008 Olympic Games? By Ron Chepesiuk Zhou “Joe” Yin, a systems analyst at Microsoft, hasn’t been home to Beijing in three years. When he calls home, though, one question dominates the conversation: Will Beijing host the 2008 Olympic Games? “There is a lot of excitement in China right now because the people are anticipating that Beijing will be staging the games,” Yin says. COMPLETE STORY...		Former Taiwanese President Tours Cornell (in National News) Youth Commission Report Critical of S.F. Schools (in Bay Area News) Yoshiki Watanabe's Reunion (in A&E) Emil Amok: Your Liberty Interests Affirmed Here (in Opinion)

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Japanese Car Exports to China Latest Casualty of Escalating Trade War By Gary Schaefer/AP Japanese car exports to China have become the latest casualty of a trade war that has split Japanese industry and raised questions about Beijing’s willingness to play by global trading rules. The deepening dispute, which began as a fight over cheap Chinese vegetables, has exposed the disparity of interests between Japan’s globally competitive export-oriented manufacturers and its inefficient — but politically powerful — farmers. COMPLETE STORY...

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