Elusive torch, high-visibility protests
 
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Torch
(Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)
People wait along the Olympic torch route Wednesday afternoon, hoping to see the flame during its only U.S. stop on its way to China. Officials, worried that the event would mirror the chaos and arrests that marked previous torch legs in London and Paris, employed a bait-and-switch tactic with thousands of activists who surged into the city to protest China's actions from Tibet to Myanmar to Darfur.