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Since supposed front-runner Max Kennedy dropped out of the race in June citing family concerns, the field of declared candidates has expanded quickly...
...Associated Press reported last week that the Joyce campaign had already raised $600,000 to the $575,000 raised by runner-up Lynch, who now hopes to benefit from the fund-raising and strategy skills of Democratic political operative Michael Whouley, a Dorchester native...
...Beijing won the Games easily. In voting that could have gone four rounds, the capital captured an outright majority of 56 ballots in the second. Paris, a top rival, polled a paltry 18 votes?four behind the other front-runner, Toronto. French politicians immediately acted like sore losers, and pointed to the problems that have dogged China's bid from the start. "I am saddened for Paris, but ashamed for the Olympics," said centrist parliamentarian Alain Madelin, who added that China deserves a gold medal for violating human rights...
...Barry Hillenbrand: No. Everybody knew that Beijing was the leader on the basis of the fact that they?d been the runner up in the 1993 vote that gave Sydney the 2000 Games...
Dennis Hopper is an actor, writer and director. He and Penn collaborated in the Hopper-directed film Colors in 1988 and in Penn's directorial debut, The Indian Runner...