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Last year, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals explored the world of ancient Greece with its 161st show, “Acropolis Now,” a comical look at the first Olympics. For its 162nd production, HPT is transporting audiences back to another Greece—“Grease?...

Author: By Ali R. Leskowitz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pudding Caught Red-Handed with Plans for New Show | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

If life is fair, then the International Olympic Committee will next week declare that Brazil has been chosen to host the 2016 Summer Olympics and thus become the first South American nation to win one of sports' greatest honors.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rio's Olympics Quest: Can It Handle the 2016 Games? | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

The other main contenders are the U.S., Spain and Japan, and they've all hosted the Olympics before. So, Brazilians, with their beaches, sun, and a vibrant economy whose recent performance has shamed many developing-world rivals, believe that Rio de Janiero - and South America - deserves the chance to show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rio's Olympics Quest: Can It Handle the 2016 Games? | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

"It isn't right that the Olympics be held in the U.S. for the eighth time," Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said recently, in what was just one in a series of typical appeals to IOC delegates. "It's not possible that it be in England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rio's Olympics Quest: Can It Handle the 2016 Games? | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

Another key--and another classic from the Coke playbook--has been keeping things cold. In India and China, tradition and a shortage of refrigeration mean that Coca-Cola is often drunk warm. In parts of China where cold drinks are traditionally considered unhealthy, it is even boiled and served with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coke's Recession Boomlet | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

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