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Lip syncing in the Olympics - Making us think!!!

sathya's blog, Aug 26, 2008 5:05 PM

Those of you who saw the spectacular opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics may remember the little girl who sang a beautiful song. News has started coming out that she was lip-syncing (moving her l...

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