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...movement. Acting like a CEO trying to get control over runaway costs and a bloated bureaucracy, Rogge has cut expenses by reducing the number of I.O.C. staff members attending the Games. He has also made it clear that his style is very different from that of his predecessor, Juan Antonio Samaranch, a man of expensive tastes. Rogge, a three-time Olympic competitor in yachting, is forgoing the considerable comfort of the I.O.C. hotel in Salt Lake City and has moved into more austere quarters in the Olympic Village on the edge of the University of Utah campus...
Gilles Aillaud, Eduardo Arroyo and Antonio Recalcati, members of the Narrative Figuration school, created a sequence of paintings in 1965 by projecting photographs onto canvas. They show the "assassination" of artist Marcel Duchamp, who they considered had sold out by, among other things, moving to the U.S. To Live or Let Die, or The Tragic End of Marcel Duchamp includes faithful copies of his works. His assassins, ordinary fellows in jackets and ties who could be paper-clip salesmen, smoke while the artist slumps unconscious in a chair...
Kickbacks, pay-offs, and other sundry dealings involving officials from the Mormon State were exposed under the previous IOC presidency of Juan Antonio Samaranch; he was forced out and so were dozens of Olympic bureaucrats. Salt Lake got to keep the Games, however...
...something to fantasize about, the physical reality may not be. So no job security worries for models yet. But supermodels and celebrities are another question. At least you can pretend that a nameless model really is a firefighter or a welder or a pilot. But put Tom Cruise or Antonio Banderas or Linda Evangelista in a firefighter's uniform, and the fantasy evaporates. Suddenly it's crass, commercial and calculated. But fans needn't worry...
...Pedro Antonio Noguera, a professor at the Graduate School of Education, called Harvard’s employment policies “a crime and a disgrace,” and said that “if [Summers] wants a peaceful spring, he’ll deal with this soon...