NEW YORK Hasheem Thabeet realizes his offensive game needs work and understands it will be hard for him to dominate defensively the way he did in college.

... during the school year? The Greek Olympics, Egyptians and China. What has been the best class project so far? The Olympic games, creating an Egyptian news broadcast and poster presentations. What are the students' favorite things to do at ...

There is something bizarre yet familiar about the fact that China's crackdown in Tibet has provoked more discussions on the fate of the Beijing Summer Olympics than on Tibet itself. The Games are supposed to be China's coming-out party as a 21st-century economic superpower. The brutality of the clampdown on the Tibetan ...

... Georgia that ended in 1992. The fighting broke out as much of the world's attention was focused on the start of the Olympic Games and many leaders, including Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Bush, were in Beijing. The ...

BEIJING China didn't just walk onto the world stage. It soared over it.

PARIS Paris' Olympic torch relay descended into chaos Monday, with protesters scaling the Eiffel Tower, grabbing for the flame and forcing security officials to repeatedly snuff out the torch and transport it by bus past demonstrators yelling "Free Tibet!"

... Acutely aware its response to China's worst disaster in 30 years could affect Beijing's image heading into the Olympic Games, President Hu Jintao ramped up the government's public relations efforts, making his first trip to the stricken ...

... tell the stories of the folks who participated in the odd, under the radar sporting events. McKay also covered the Olympic Games to great extent. And in 1972, when 11 Israeli Olympic athletes were taken hostage and killed by the Black September ...

... had been reluctant to confirm Bush's plans for the opening event, although there was no doubt he would attend the Olympic Games. While other world leaders have talked of boycotting the Aug. 8 opening ceremonies, Bush's aides have signaled ...

BEIJING With one month to go before the Olympics open on Aug. 8, China's work is hardly complete.