Why are all of your stories wrong?
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/ioc-no-indi...173659597.html
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The IOC defended Dow Chemical's Olympic sponsorship Friday and denied that India was considering boycotting next year's London Games over the company's links to the world's worst industrial disaster.
Dow's sponsorship of the London Olympics has come under scrutiny in Britain and India because of the American-based company's connection with the Bhopal gas leak in 1984. Critics are calling for organizers to scrap Dow's sponsorship of a curtain-style wrap that will encircle the Olympic Stadium.
An estimated 15,000 people died and tens of thousands were maimed when poisonous gas leaked from the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal in central India. Dow bought Union Carbide in 2001 but denies responsibility for Carbide's Bhopal liabilities.
Some British media reported Friday that the Indian Olympic Association will vote on a possible boycott on Dec. 5. However, there was no confirmation of that in India, and the International Olympic Committee said the reports were inaccurate.
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I'll see if any US media incorrectly reported that India was "considering" boycotting the Olympics... if it wasn't reported, it is more likely because the sourcing was speculative rather than concrete.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
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- -- Aristotle
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