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...will make its decision on Oct. 2, after considering rival bids from Madrid, Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro (which is considered the front runner). But in light of the heavy financial burden that is associated with staging the Olympics, the question is: Would getting the Games really be a good thing for Chicago...
...that hasn't always been true. The economic benefits of the Olympics for host cities are at best mixed, and the opening bravado often descends into recrimination and regret. Of course, there are obvious benefits for an Olympic host city - primarily the opportunity to showcase itself in front of a global TV audience numbering in the billions. Indeed, many view the Olympics as the ultimate infomercial to help attract business and foreign direct investment...
...believe it's the university's place to determine what goes on in a room," Freshman Jon Levinson told the Associated Press. "Personally, I wouldn't want to have sex in front of my roommate, and my roommate wouldn't want to have sex in front...
Museum staffers and Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Earth and Planetary Sciences students in neon yellow shirts gathered in the lawn in front of the Harvard Museum of Natural History this afternoon for the all-chalk "Sidewalk through Time," which traces the history of life on earth from the first amoebas to human beings...
Seamus Daly has stiff competition on his hands. In the front window of his small wine store on the main road from Drogheda to Dublin are blackboards with handwritten messages extolling the virtues of his rosés and reds. But passing motorists can barely see them with all the brightly colored posters and banners crowding them on either side. "Ireland Needs Europe," reads one. "Lisbon = Lower Wages," warns another...