The opening ceremonies for the Olympic Games in Beijing. Claire Conceison, associate professor of drama at Tufts University and a researcher at Harvard Universitys Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, talks about the symbolism.
Bill Littlefield, host of NPRs Only a Game weighs in on the competition and David Silk, who played on the U.S. Hockey Team that won the gold medal in 1980 reflects on what it means to be part of an opening ceremony for the Olympics. Also on todays show, retired General Barry McCaffrey talks about his recent trip to Afghanistan and we speak to author Lee Israel. When her writing career was in a slump, she turned to forging letters from famous people, selling them to dealer.