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...lack of skiers was not unexpected. Whistler, in fact, didn't even volunteer to host the Games - the resort doesn't really need the exposure. But once Vancouver won the Games, Whistler essentially had to rent itself out to the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) to provide the slopes for the men's and women's alpine skiing events, including the downhill, slalom, giant slalom, super G and the super combined. The contract calls for VANOC to reimburse Whistler for skier days lost to the Games. "VANOC's done a good job," says Jensen. "They're making us whole...
...felt very good about the meet on Saturday,” said Princeton men’s head coach Fred Samara. “I’m happy to host the meet, and it will be a lot of fun. It will be a competitive meet, but we’ve won handily in the past...
Unless they’re planning on raging in Qdoba, Harvard Square doesn’t offer students much in terms of party spaces. Co-eds have long been looking for an ample venue that isn’t the Co-op or the Phoenix to host events; and they seem to have found one this year. Oberon, the theatrical club space of the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.), is slowly becoming the hot new space on campus to plan an all-night affair...
...Paid for, thank you very much, by the taxpayers of Vancouver. More than any other project in recent Olympic history, the $1 billion residential complex represents the risks that urban governments face when trying to host one of the world's biggest parties. The city planned to invest about $47 million in the project back in 2006. However, cost overruns and the recession forced Vancouver to step in and bail out the private developers who were charged with financing the project. The city avoided the humiliation of welcoming the world with a half-built Olympic Village, but at a great...
...even on the eve of the opening ceremonies, a moment when most host cities are glowing with pride, many residents are rankled. "People are ferociously upset about the Village," says Shaw. The spectacle has created a cruel irony: as the Olympic athletes enjoy the good life - free food, spacious rooms - in a taxpayer-financed housing complex, just a few blocks away sits Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighborhood, site of some of the most acute poverty in North America. Homeless people and drug addicts hole up in back alleys; one church alone shelters 300 people on any given night. The neighborhood...