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...I.O.C. executive board sent a letter to Cinquanta urging quick action, a message he had already received in person from Rogge. "We didn't step in on the merits of the matter," says Olympic committee general director Francois Carrard, "but we wanted it expedited as quickly as possible." Toronto's Globe and Mail reported last week that on Thursday afternoon Rogge told Cinquanta he could take the matter out of the I.S.U.'s hands entirely because Le Gougne had violated the Olympic oath she took during the opening ceremonies of the Games. To avoid that embarrassment, Cinquanta would have...
...firm, tried videoconferencing once before, to save money during the last recession, from 1990 to 1991. But "there were delays in the audio. We were stepping on each other's lines," says Markel, who demands strong communication and teamwork among his brokers in far-flung cities like Richmond, Va.; Toronto; Paris; and Sydney, Australia. Soon his employees were back on airplanes, and the expensive video hookups started gathering dust. So after the terror attacks last September, when travel delays were eating up the time of his employees, Markel thought videoconferencing would be a short-term solution at best...
...World Youth Day celebrations climax in Toronto (27-28) with a vigil, a live concert and Papal Mass - up to a million young Catholics from 150 countries are expected to attend...
DIED. FRANK SHUSTER, 85, the sunny, subtler half of the Canadian comedy team Wayne and Shuster, a favorite of TV host Ed Sullivan, on whose long-running variety show they appeared 67 times; in Toronto...
...costs. She'll give up the train, maybe even the stage coach, but never, ever, the palanquin ADAM ANT '80s rocker sent to the shrinks for waving a gun at a London pub. He used to do that in feathers and makeup and called it a "video" MEL LASTMAN Toronto mayor in trouble after shaking hands with a Hell's Angel. He says he'd been hanging with Nazis all day and needed a break...