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Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 14:27
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Subject: Ragged Edge E-Letter 9/15/2004


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WHERE ARE THE PARALYMPICS?  IN ATHENS, OF COURSE!...
A record number of journalists will be there with them, says the
International Paralymics Committee. The games will start Friday.
Nevertheless, it seems there will be no U.S. broadcasts of the Games.
Why not? That's what the BBC's Stuart Hughes wants to know. Follow
his blog at the http://stuarthughes.blogspot.com/ -- or read his 9/6
blog on the topic at
http://stuarthughes.blogspot.com/2004/09/american-broadcasters-ignore-20
-of.html
Christina Papamichael is Ouch's official Athens blogger, at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/paralympics/blog/

. What? You don't know Ouch? There's nothing like it in the U.S. The
BBC website Ouch is proof the Brits take their disability movement
more seriously -- uh, or maybe not seriously, exactly...  Visit
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/ and find out for yourself.

The official Athens Paralympics website is at
http://www.athens2004.com/en/

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U. S. OLYMPICS COMMITTEE: BAD SPORTS ABOUT THE PARALYMPICS
For years the U.S. Olympics Committee has treated the U.S.
Paralympics shabbily. Last year some Paralympians sued them over it.
Reporter Josie Byzek looked at the problem way back in 1999 -- read
the story from our archives at
http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/0999/a0999cov.htm

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DID YOU MISS?...
Yesterday Massachusetts held its primary elections, but a third of
the state's polling sites are still not fully accessible, according
to a new survey -- read more at
http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/drn/09_04.html#768   In a September
3 editorial, The New York Times worried that soldiers might be
required to waive the right to a secret ballot, but Cal Montgomery
worries about why the Times and most everybody else forgets about
those of us who, due to inaccessible voting machines, never get the
right to vote in private.
http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/mediacircus/soldiervote0904.html



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