Ignoring the Olympics' inconvenient truth

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Are Olympics sponsors still feeling uneasy about linking themselves to China in the aftermath of unrest in Tibet and nearby regions? New advertising from Visa indicates as much. A commercial (viewable on a Visa microsite) sounds curiously defensive as it says, “We don’t always agree. But for a few shining weeks, we set it all aside. … We forget all the things that make us different, and remember all the things that make us the same.”

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