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Gourmet Writer a Threat to Beijing?

Baffled food journalist denied Olympic visa

By Michael Foreman, Newser User

Posted Aug 11, 2008 3:31 PM CDT

(Newser) – She's not a Tibetan activist, a human-rights watchdog, or a political correspondent. So why couldn't Karen Coates, a food writer for Gourmet, get a visa to cover the Beijing Olympics? She recounts the mind-numbing bureaucratic hoops she jumped through to submit her application, which seems... Read full story »

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