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Our correspondent describes the fraught effort to attend the opening ceremony. It is a pageant highlighting a divided world, with party leaders aiming for zero covid, zero mistakes and zero dissent. An investigation reveals the brutal treatment meted out by Libya\u2019s coast guard dealing with Europe-bound migrants\u2014an outfit bankrolled by the European Union itself. And America\u2019s gun-owners become surprisingly diverse.

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