Vancouver is, evidently, the only city in the northwest quadrant that's short on snow. But the Olympic Games are, as always, a perfect arena for international narratives to unfold.
Did the end of the Cold War take all the zest out of Olympic competitions? Stephen has a solution for engaging twenty-first century enemies in physical combat.
And NBC opens the games with a montage of athletes grimacing, exulting and otherwise emoting while a sober voiceover lays out the characteristics of the U.S. team: ambitious, indomitable, passionate, graceful, speedy, charismatic, original, redeemable. Let those who doubt the private sector is capable of spinning a public diplomacy narrative take note...
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ReplyDeleteand yeah, too bad al Qaeda doesn't do winter sports...