i vote berlin

you won't learn much from time's lessons of the beijing olympics, but the article elicits one good question near the end: was it more like tokyo '68 or berlin '36?

Perhaps, looking back on Beijing 2008, we will judge the Games as the moment that China assumed the role of future superpower. Tokyo '68 was like that, heralding the emergence of what was to become the world's second-largest economy. Or, maybe, like Berlin '36, the Olympics will shine a light on a repressive, closed political system.