Word: istanbul
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...attack this disease only on the battlefield? Why not go after its supply lines of tobacco, food additives and pollution? CHRIS GLOVER Istanbul...
...first Fulbright scholar at the University of Istanbul considers Harvard the "happiest four years of my life...
...please, we're Olympic inspectors. "We paid all our own bills," said Hein Verbruggen, chairman of the evaluation commission. "The bid cities bought us one meal?usually a very good meal?but that's all." Last week in Lausanne the evaluation commission issued its 108-page report. Two cities, Istanbul and Osaka, were found lacking, thus virtually killing their chances of being chosen. The commission said that both places had serious flaws in their financial plans that could not be overcome. The Japanese claimed the commission had jumbled the figures on Osaka's public finance obligations to the tune...
...sequestered to vote for a new pope, the 122 members of the International Olympic Committee will lock themselves into a conference room in the World Trade Center in Moscow on July 13 and not leave until white smoke rises to proclaim a winner from among five candidate cities: Beijing, Istanbul, Osaka, Paris and Toronto. While the voting takes only a day, cities campaign for years to be selected. After all, this is about much more than prestige. Over its four-year cycle, a summer Olympic Games could generate $10 billion in spending for the host city...
...please, we're Olympic inspectors. "We paid all our own bills," said Hein Verbruggen, chairman of the evaluation commission. "The bid cities bought us one meal-usually a very good meal-but that's all." Last week in Lausanne the evaluation commission issued its 108-page report. Two cities, Istanbul and Osaka, were found lacking, thus virtually killing their chances of being chosen. The commission said that both places had serious flaws in their financial plans that could not be overcome. The Japanese claimed the commission had jumbled the figures on Osaka's public finance obligations to the tune...