Everything has been prepared, all tickets have been sold, yet Beijing is not ready for the games. The majors issues, air pollution, freedom of speech and journalistic freedom as well as the whole visa thing cast a dark shadow above these Olympics. What will the Olympics be under these circumstances? Doing a review later is easy... therefore I do a preview. What will happen during the Olympics, what will be the outcome?

Excerpt from the Beijing Olympic English Handbook on illegal reporting.

The police: We're just kindly reminding you. If you break the law, of course there are corresponding punishments, and it will surely not be like this, sitting here drinking tea.
Ma: You mean interrogation? I've already been through that. But what is this reminder, really, a warning or a threat?
The police: We're friends, and we don't want our friends to run into trouble.
Ma: But as I've said, we're not sitting here as friends. We are the ruler and the ruled.