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...cities still in the running for the 2016 Summer Games - Chicago, Rio de Janeiro, Madrid and Tokyo will hand their final submissions to the IOC this week - are also wary of the downturn. Chicago's plan for the Games rests almost entirely on contributions from businesses, foundations and individuals. "The private funding initiatives on behalf of the general public [are] a well-established precedent in Chicago," says Patrick Ryan, chairman and CEO of Chicago 2016. Ryan remains optimistic that Chicago can raise enough money should it win the Games, not least because Chicago's proposed athletes' village would be located...
...After having smashed Boston University, 8-0, in the Beanpot’s first round, the Harvard women’s hockey team (13-7-3, 12-4-2 ECAC) is gearing up for mid-season glory in Beantown’s prestigious final tonight against No. 7 Boston College (19-7-3, 12-5-1 Hockey East...
...West (8-1) suffered a setback against the Tigers, falling to senior Mauricio Sanchez. West likely could have overtaken the nation’s top spot with a win, but will continue to stand as one of the best in the country heading into Wednesday’s season finale against Yale.The day’s best efforts came from the third and fourth seeds, as senior Niko Hrdy (6-3) and Buchanon (3-4) fought tenaciously despite weary legs.Hrdy took his opponent to 9-7, 9-2, 9-7, showing energy even in the final set, while Buchanon found...
...hypothetically" able to bear children. On Feb. 6 the prime minister introduced a decree that would have forced the doctors to provide full care and feeding to Englaro, but Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano refused to sign it, saying there was no evidence that the Supreme Court's final ruling on the case last year was unconstitutional...
...leaders, he had publicly invited both Berlusconi and Napolitano on Saturday to see his daughter for themselves following news reports that she was in rather robust physical shape. "Come to Udine to take full account, in person and in private, of my daughter's real condition." It was a final reminder of at least one difference from the Schiavo case: no pictures of Englaro taken after her car accident 17 years ago had ever been circulated, forever preserving for the public the image of a vibrant young woman in the prime of her life...