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Three months after Atlanta managed to stage the biggest Olympic Games ever, the extravaganza remains marred by a controversial FBI bombing investigation. Meanwhile, organizers are struggling to show a small surplus even as endorsement contracts for top athletes remain scarce. And some gold medalists have encountered serious bad luck in their post-Olympic lives...
...studying, for maintenance, appliances, for the wall, for storage, food stuffs and, finally, the ever ambiguous etc. The List pretty much instructed us to pack the entire contents of our home and that of the closest neighbor. Families in town began designating entire rooms, entire wings to hold the extravaganza of supplies needed to insure a safe passage from home to the wild college scene...
Initially, the once haughty Democrats were relegated to bit parts in the first-100-days extravaganza that opened Gingrich's Congress. But their shared humiliation also offered a chance to find the sort of cohesiveness that they had often marveled at in the Republicans. Early on, Gephardt fashioned the test that would force them to confront all their old ideological demons: a Democratic alternative to the G.O.P. welfare-reform bill. Day after day, they argued in Gephardt's office. Hispanic members threatened to walk out over provisions cutting off benefits to legal immigrants; liberals hated the idea of putting time...
...open houses this year will have themes, but the eclipse [theme] was not planned," she said. "It just conveniently happened tonight so we decided to advertise the party as a 'dessert and eclipse extravaganza...
Since they began planning last spring, members of the Institute of Politics (IOP) and the Undergraduate Council promised that Saturday would be the largest political extravaganza at Harvard in years...