Note to China: Please Implode Mark Morford on China, Tibet ant the Olympics


	Note to China: Please Implode Mark Morford on China, Tibet ant the Olympics

papananook

3-21-2008 1:57 PM

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papananook says:

Another very good column by Morford. Any thoughts on an Olympic boycott a la 1980 in Moscow?

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