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...drenching rain on Cypress Mountain that eventually washed away the standing-room spectator zone, costing organizers around $1.4 million in refunded ticket sales. The signature snafu may be this: the Canadians couldn't make ice. A men's speed-skating final had to be halted for more than an hour because two ice-resurfacing machines were in various degrees of breakdown--sort of like the Games themselves. Still, you'd have a difficult time convincing most Canadians that their Olympics aren't measuring up. Snafus notwithstanding, Vancouver has been a determinedly cheerful host city and Whistler an advertisement...
After over an hour of answering questions, running up and down the stairs, and feasting on chips and ice cream sandwiches, Pfoho emerged victorious...
...beach in Waikiki at 6 a.m. when the first tsunami warning sirens went off, blaring for 10 minutes - as they would every hour throughout the state. (They went off again at 7 a.m., in case anyone missed it.) By then, news of the massive quake in Chile had already filtered into hotels and homes in the area. (See pictures of the earthquake aftermath in Chile...
Last night I spent an amusing hour-and-a-half at a Kevin Smith entertainment. I listened to Smodcast (Smith podcast) 106, recorded two weeks ago, about what the writer-director called "my portly misadventure" when he was tossed off a Southwest Airlines flight for weighing too much. With his wife, Jennifer Schwalbach, alternately prodding and sedating him, Smith testifies that he is both a gentleman ("Death before discourtesy is my f---in' mantra") and a bit of a role model for fatties ("I do wear it fairly well"). Claiming he was treated "like a terrorist" and vowing revenge against...
...Europe. Christine Gallagher's book The Divorce Party Planner includes a "full party plan," with advice on gift ideas, games and appropriate divorce party music. And one London-based law firm, Lloyd Platt & Company, even sells divorce legal advice vouchers for $200 per half hour. (See the best social networking applications...