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While most four-star establishments in this part of the city are Old World in style, the oldest thing you'll find at the Pulitzer is the white-and-gold Baroque reception desk, salvaged from a Sicilian church. The rest is straight out of a Modernist design book, but with added heart. The Picasso-like sketches and giant Miró-esque canvases create a very Spanish backdrop to a ground floor dedicated to the Catalunyan art of chilling. Spend the afternoon sinking into one of the white leather couches, sipping cocktails at the red Chinese-lacquer bar, or flipping through...
...Unfortunately, it looks as though events are about to repeat themselves. As Pierre de Coubertin, creator of the modern Olympics, noted, “Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.” Will President Hu Jintao refuse to congratulate a gold medalist who happens to be Taiwanese? Will China’s own “undesirables” be conveniently moved out of the television cameras’ sight...
...There’s a lot of potential for the team. We had some really good races this weekend,” Dolbec said. “There were some unforced errors that brought us down, and we ended up in the silver fleet instead of the gold fleet. It was a little disappointing, but it allowed us to work on fundamentals and get in a lot of good races...
...realized how suspended things seemed there, even amid the “happy mayhem.” New Orleans is a nocturnal city, and in the bright sunshine the carnival-like setting gave way to pressing heat and gridlocked traffic. A month after Mardi Gras, glistening strands of gold, green, and purple beads still dangled from trees and telephone wires, and lay broken in the streets. Middle-aged men nursed their drinks in quiet bars, and shop owners idled in empty gallerias waiting for customers. Somebody may have been sitting in City Hall, but inertia governed. In this atmosphere, action...
...only thing that changes is that the credibility of the Olympics as a festival of goodwill suffers another dent. Jesse Owens had the right idea. In 1936 he led the U.S. team at Hitler's Berlin Olympics--a black man in the land of Aryan supremacy. His four gold medals proved that quiet excellence can be a most eloquent statement...