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Burning an illusion

It should have kindled sporting passions across the world, instead the olympic torch has become a public relations apocalypse, writes Torcuil Crichton in a three-page Sunday herald special report

WE are pretty much cock-a-hoop," says Anne Holmes of the Free Tibet Campaign, reflecting on a week of publicity that has put her cause at the top of political and news agendas across the globe.