I thought of that earlier this morning when I first saw this story.
Item Number One:
| Attackers with home-made bombs and knives killed 16 police in a restive western region of China on Monday, state media said, in just the sort of violence Beijing had hoped to avoid four days before the Olympics.
The attack, which occurred about 4,000 km 2,500 miles from the capital in the old Silk Road city of Kashgar, was a reminder of internal tensions in China, especially in its ethnically mixed and largely Muslim west. Police said they had information separatists from the East Turkestan Islamic Movement had been planning attacks in the run-up to the Games. |
I wonder if this is the forerunner to a Big Event masterminded by Big Terror.
Item Number Two is more benign in nature:
| American swimming phenomenon Michael Phelps slipped into town to begin an Olympic adventure that could end with him breaking Mark Spitzs record of seven golds in a single Olympics.
[…] Phelps won six gold and two bronze medals at the 2004 Athens Olympics and will get a $1 million bonus from sponsor Speedo if he can equal compatriot Spitzs haul from the 1972 Munich Games. |
I remember Spitz.
Note to Phelps: Stay off the dope.