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...large part due to Olympic accounts," says Christos Hadjiemmanuil, who is on leave from the London School of Economics to run the state company that is trying to lease out Olympic properties such as the sailing center. Not everything spent on the Games was wasted, though. When the media circus left town, Athens was left with something it had never had before: the infrastructure of a modern European city. "There have probably been some overruns, but I still consider Athens' legacy to be a very good one," says Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee ( i.o.c...
...intention "to treat the body surface as if it were a strange landscape." In practice, this means giving separate chapters and full photographic uncoverage to such geographic features as eyes, ears, nose, neck, shoulders and belly, not to mention those areas that the lads of Monty Python's Flying Circus once referred to as "the naughty bits...
...tried to pack it with 200 pro-Sharon and pro-Levy delegates. Addressing Sharon, Shamir demanded: "Do you think being chairman of the mandates committee is the same thing as being a front commander or Chief of Staff?" Shamir accused Levy of "megalomania" and described the convention as a "circus." Scoffed Levy: "Shamir's behavior is better suited to Disneyland...
...Greatest Show on Earth" has drawn acts from everywhere on the globe, except the People's Republic of China. But this year the "plentitudes of pachyderm precision" at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus have been joined by "a charismatic, candescent constellation of allegiant acrobatics," by which the circus shills mean the 15-member Shanghai Acrobatic Troupe. The booking took nearly 14 years of talks with the Peking government. To make their guests comfortable, the circus stocked up on rice "by the major bagful," built a special train car with a Chinese-style kitchen...
...role of St. Peter guarding heaven's gates is a suitably outrageous part for John Cleese, the madcap star of Monty Python's Flying Circus and Fawlty Towers, two of the most popular British comedy series ever to appear on American public TV. In a film called The Unorganised Manager, St. Peter returns an executive to earth to correct his "eleven deadly organizational sins...