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...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...
That's partly why he and other World Trade Center families sought comfort last week from those who lost loved ones in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. In the first of a series of videoconferences hooking up victims' families--one group in New York, the other in Oklahoma--a pained Gardner asked, "Did any of you experience anything similar?" Images on the screen showed the Midwesterners look at each other and shrug...
This oasis, located at the corner of Mass. Ave. and Dana St. and across from Cambridge College, specializes in both congeniality and comfort food. On a recent Sunday afternoon, three employees bustle about behind the counter and below a menu of pizzas, hot and cold subs, salads, spaghetti and simple red and yellow paintings thereof. Pictures of chefs, family and the Virgin Mary adorn the back wall of the kitchen. Red plastic booths overflow with pleased patrons and Impressionist prints in gilded frames crowd the wall. A large cardboard box of cans and bottles demonstrates the establishment?...
...ground. "I blame Afghans for that myself," says Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of the acting president. "It was an Afghan mistake. It shouldn't happen in the future." Karzai adds he has been "assured" there will not be a repeat, but delicately refuses to say who gave him this comfort...
...other hand, see the Japanese as a ruthless wartime occupation force comparable to that of Nazi Germany, Japan's World War II ally. They point to Japan's draconian policies of the 1930s and '40s: the kidnapping of thousands of girls and women to act as so-called comfort women for Japanese troops, the dragooning of 4 million Koreans to work as slave labor in mines and factories, and the often brutal dismantling of Korean cultural identity?the forced use of Japanese names and language is one notorious example. "It is very clear that Japan tried to wipe out Korean...