Ok, I haven’t been nor am I going to go there, but this quote from the Globe and Mail is a whole can of awesome: The torch crossed London Sunday, constantly surrounded by a dozen burly Chinese guards in blue jumpsuits, who were themselves surrounded by a special torch-protection squad of London Metropolitan Police officers [...]

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Oh how I loathe thee. Before I even came, I knew it was going to be about as straightforward as deciphering meaning from a Hu Jintao speech. Forget dealing with the bureaucracy, the language issues, eating things you once thought were poisonous, getting a proper haircut here is by far the hardest thing you’ll have [...]

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