Letters to the Boston editor, August 8, 2008

While everyone else watches the Olympics, Asia's weirdest sporting event transpires in the world's most secretive country

The spirit of the chairman haunts the Beijing Olympics

Alone again, artistically: A glimpse of what it’s like to be present at the creation

The tragedy of Rakan Hassan and the impossibility of a Hippocratic Oath for journalists

Dianne Wilkerson and Sonia Chang-Díaz don’t talk about the racial split in their Senate showdown, but it’s likely to make its mark

Olympians to watch