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USA Today (February 21)

2022/ 02/ 22 by jd in Global News

“They have come to an end, the strangest, most controversial, most unwelcoming Olympic Games of our lifetime…. This wasn’t a joyous festival of sport; this was a forbidding fortress of separation.” Furthermore, “the issues emanating from Beijing’s Olympics were far more serious, making the Tokyo Olympics look almost normal by comparison.”

 

Washington Post (August 8)

2021/ 08/ 09 by jd in Global News

“The flame that burned throughout one of history’s most controversial Games was extinguished Sunday as Japan brought the curtain down on the Tokyo Olympics with Closing Ceremonies that were as unusual as the event itself” because there were very few athletes present. “It was a fitting, bittersweet end to a complicated Games. While the ban on spectators meant the Games looked and felt nothing like the electric showcase of Japan that organizers had hoped for, the Olympics nonetheless provided a much-needed respite, a burst of joy and human wonder, for viewers around the world exhausted by the pandemic.”

 

WARC (June 2)

2021/ 06/ 04 by jd in Global News

“Sponsors that made a relatively sound bet on one of the major global sporting events could not have foreseen the pandemic. Now, with the games an increasingly controversial topic, sponsors are navigating negative public opinion.” As they “worry about the risks of sponsoring an event opposed by a majority of the country” and focus on avoiding negative exposure, some Olympic sponsors have given up on recouping their investments.

 

The Independent (July 30)

2019/ 08/ 01 by jd in Global News

“Human-animal hybrids are to be developed in embryo form in Japan after the government approved controversial stem-cell research.” Elsewhere worries that “human cells could stray beyond the targeted organs into other areas of the animal, effectively creating a creature that is part animal, part person” have essentially banned such research. But supporters counter that “the work – led by renowned geneticist Hiromitsu Nakauchi – could be a vital first step towards eventually growing organs that can then be transplanted into people in need.”

 

Los Angeles Times (July 16)

2019/ 07/ 17 by jd in Global News

“Demeaning, offensive, nativist, unbecoming a president”—President Trump’s words telling 4 members of Congress to go back to their own countries were all of that and more, but “they were not politically stupid.” The president “wants to run against something scarier than he is, which is why he” wants “to paint Democrats as radical socialists.” He “wants the most liberal and controversial House members to become the face of the Democratic Party so he, the most disruptive and norm-violating president of modern times, will seem like the political equivalent of comfort food, or at worst the devil you know.”

 

Washington Post (April 22)

2016/ 04/ 23 by jd in Global News

During his visit to London, President Obama has been somewhat controversially urging the British to remain in the EU. “British leadership in the world is very much at stake. And because it really is a matter of profound, bipartisan, long-term U.S. interest that Britain remain a European power and thus a world power, Obama is right to take the risk and say so.”

 

Wall Street Journal (March 9)

2016/ 03/ 09 by jd in Global News

Five years have passed since the nuclear meltdown, but “Fukushima still rattles Japan.” The nation must debate the controversial “reopening of reactors” that have largely been shuttered since the accident, even as “costly cleanup and decommissioning” are scheduled to continue for decades at Fukushima.

 

Financial Times (September 7)

2015/ 09/ 07 by jd in Global News

Now nearing $500 billion a year, “stock buybacks are big and controversial.” Some claim buybacks are “killing the American economy…. Fine companies, the idea runs, sacrifice their future to satisfy cash-hungry hedge funds.” This is overblown. “Buybacks do not destroy the cash used. The cash goes to stockholders—often pension funds or mutual funds—that reinvest it, presumably in younger firms that are cash-starved and hungry to expand.”

 

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