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After watching lion dancers on the street, the attendees—mainly composed of families with young children—headed into the Kong for an open house event featuring arts-and-crafts on the second floor and entertainment, including a puppet show and dancing, on the third...
...detractors, cash-for-work is glorified street sweeping - a small-scale, feel-good scheme that helps deflect attention from how poorly the U.N. is doing with bigger, more consequential jobs like getting displaced Haitians decent shelter and sanitation facilities. But its backers say the program bears the seeds not only of a more effective rebuilding effort in Haiti, but of a new development strategy that's less about top-down, welfare-style aid and more about economy-stimulating engagement of the grassroots. "The old, more paternalistic way of doing charity was easier," says Brazilian aid worker Eliana Nicolini, a UNDP...
...Winter Olympics since 1998 in Nagano, Japan. "There's no second place," she said when asked where Vancouver ranks on the booze barometer. (In fairness, you can pretty much strike from the debate Salt Lake City, the abstemious host of the 2002 Olympics.) Ford's hotel is near Granville Street, close enough for her to hear the "Can-a-da, Can-a-da" shouts at 3 a.m. "It's been a two-week tailgate," she said. "I've covered a lot of college football, and this is like the Dante's Inferno version of tailgating...
...bars and onto Granville to celebrate. "F___ the U.S.A.," a Canadian fan yelled, anticipating Sunday's gold-medal game against the Americans. As I dodged one oblivious celebrant who almost poked my eye out with a Canadian flag, I bumped into another who was stumbling down the street. I asked a police officer, who was carrying a flask he had just confiscated, if his fellow officers were finding a lot of booze in the streets. "One [officer] just told me he took two beer cans," he said...
...There should be more." A roofer by day, he told me he had just consumed 8 to 10 beers - and he looked like it. "The police are too strict," he said. "One of them poured out my beer - and I wasn't even drunk yet." At 2 a.m., Granville Street was still packed, and there were plenty of drunks wandering about. Vancouver appeared to have more morons per square foot than the Jersey Shore house...