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...world with a half-built Olympic Village, but at a great price: in early 2009, new Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson declared that taxpayers were "on the hook" for the $1 billion project. "What ended up happening was that the city became a bank for private-sector development," says Mark Cutler, director of Olympic Village Development for the Vancouver Organizing Committee, the body that is operating the complex during the Games. (See what becomes of Olympic stadiums...
...Isabel Allende and Gabriel García Márquez, the translation introduced readers to a then-unknown Latin America, one neither swathed in magic realism nor saturated with family saga, but instead, mired—violently, bitterly, and evocatively—in political repression. The novella would mark the bloody delivery of visceral realism into the American consciousness, which soon became infatuated with the macabre elements that rage so relentlessly through Bolanõ’s work and that of his contemporary and cohort, Salvadoran Horacio Castellanos Moya. This fascination, wrote Moya in a critical piece he penned...
...years been a den of narcotics traffickers and insurgents, serving as a launching pad for roadside bombs and suicide attacks. If the U.S. and its allies succeed in driving out the Taliban - and, perhaps more importantly, bring a measure of security to Marja - U.S. officials believe it will mark a turning point...
...addition to the 4x400 relay, the women’s track and field teams also took home gold in three other events, all won by freshmen. Olivia Weeks posted an 11.96-meter mark in the triple jump to win the event, while classmate Ashtynn Baltimore captured an NCAA provisional qualifying time in the 60-meter hurdles despite placing second...
...Quakers’ Mark Rappo sprung from a headlock to earn an early takedown and would not relent. Rappo negated Keith’s tremendous escapability by consistenly corralling the young grappler. Each time Keith got his legs under him, Rappo would keep hold of his opponent’s foot. When Keith finally did break free, the Penn standout earned two more takedowns and a five-second pin, pushing the bout out of reach. Rappo finished with a major decision to put the Quakers on top for good...