University of California President Janet Napolitano will lead the United States’ delegation of athletes in the 2014 Winter Olympics opening ceremony, officials announced Tuesday.
President Barack Obama asked the former secretary of Homeland Security to walk in the ceremony, which will take place on Feb. 7 in Sochi, Russia.
“I look forward to being in Sochi to support our Olympic athletes and celebrate their accomplishments,” Napolitano said in a statement. “It is an honor to represent our country in the company of individuals who have excelled in life and sport.”
Napolitano has long been an avid sports fan, said Dianne Klein, University spokeswoman. Napolitano also led the U.S. delegation during the closing ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada.
Compiled by Kristen Taketa, Bruin senior staff
Why does she need to go in person when she can just send some secret spy-cams instead? Oh, and she’d probably not even need to send in the surveillance since she already wired up the whole world when she was in charge of DHS.
Also: will she complain if she’s deported from Russia or disappeared into one of its constitution-free zones? Nvm, I forgot: only the US has those carceral black-sites. Silly me!
In 2008, China sentenced three Tibetans up to 13 years’ jail-time. Then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged then-President George Bush not
to attend the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics in
Beijing. A concurring resolution passed by a vote of 413 to 1.
Dianne Feinstein introduced a similar resolution in the Senate.
“For
some members of the U.S. Congress
to set aside the Olympic spirit and the principle that sports should
not be politicized, and even to openly encourage interference with and
harm to the San Francisco torch relay, completely lacks basic morals and
conscience,” a statement posted on the Chinese
Foreign Ministry’s web site reiterated. Meanwhile, the President and
First Lady watched from the bleachers as Michael Phelps swam to Olympics
glory under/ in front of / and over the ubiquitous television cameras.
UC President Janet Napolitano said she will lead the U.S. delegation at
an opening ceremony of the Winter Games in Sochi.
Napolitano also said on Meet the Press last Sunday that she would rule out offering clemency to Edward Snowden, who
fled to Hong Kong after he began leaking documents to media outlets last
summer. Snowden now lives in Russia but has asked several countries publicly
for asylum.
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) is a 2006 film by F. H. Donnersmarck about the monitoring of the people of East Berlin by agents of the Stasi. This important film won the 2006 Best Foreign Academy Award. PLOT: In 1984
officer Wiesler is assigned to spy on playwright Dreyman. Wiesler
and his team bug the apartment, set up surveillance equipment in an
attic and begin reporting Dreyman’s activities. Through his
surveillance, he knows Dreyman and actress Sieland are in love. Dreyman
becomes disillusioned with the treatment of his colleagues by
the state. At his birthday party, his friend Albert Jerska (a
blacklisted theatrical director) gives him sheet music for Sonate vom Guten Menschen (Sonata For a Good Man). After Jerska’s suicide, Dreyman decides to publish an anonymous article in Der Spiegal about the East
German suicide rate.
No suicide rates in the GDR have been published since 1977 (that year,
it was second in European suicides only to Hungary). When the Stasi
search his apartment for the
typewriter involved, they don’t find it. Wiesler had already seized the
evidence. Wiesler’s career is over, and he will be demoted to
Department M. In November 1989, Wiesler is steaming open letters in a
windowless office when a co-worker tells him about the fall of the
Berlin Wall;
realizing what this means, they both silently get up
and walk out. Dreyman goes to the State Archives to read the files on
his activities. He reads that his girlfriend Sieland was released
from interrogation just before the search, and could not have removed
the
typewriter. Wiesler passes a bookstore window display promoting
Dreyman’s new novel, Sonate vom Guten Menschen.
He goes inside, opens a copy of the book and discovers it is dedicated
“To HGW XX/7, with gratitude.” Wiesler buys the book; when the sales
clerk asks if he wants it gift-wrapped he responds, “No, it’s for me.”