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...said the Athens effort was the worst organizational crisis in recent Olympic history. When Angelopoulos-Daskalaki took over the Games organization shortly after, she scaled back extravagant projects. Last February, the I.O.C.'s new president, Jacques Rogge, urged Greeks to forget the frills. Landscaping plans were pruned, a rail line was cancelled and the plastic roof over the Aquatic Center was scrapped. Even if everything goes well from here, those compromises will be felt. Visitors are being advised to wear comfortable shoes and be prepared to hoof it. Some insiders say these...
...People were in every posture ... Some were crying and screaming. They all looked scared." UNNAMED WITNESS of the rail-yard explosion in North Korea that left at least 154 dead and 1,300 injured, prompting the secretive North Korean government to take the unusual steps of acknowledging the accident and seeking international...
...Despite the devastation, trains on the single rail line between Beijing and Pyongyang, which passes through Ryongchon, continued to run. On future trips to China, though, Kim might consider taking a plane...
...every Catholic who uses birth control or has had a vasectomy or an abortion were denied the sacraments, there would be very few people at the Communion rail on Sunday morning. GRETCHEN W. MARING Ellison...
There are stones on both sides of the fence. And at one moment it is more proper to rail at the method of instruction than the conduct of the student, or vice-versa, because either the one or the other is more flagrantly misfit. But in the long run no criticism of instruction is sound which does not also recognize that the formal instructor is responsible for very few of the personal aptitudes and aversions of the individual student; and no execration heaped upon the head of students is just without the knowledge that artless instruction can bar the progress...