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Princeton 34 Dartmouth 30 at the half Kansas 70 Nebraska 53 Notre Dame 103 Providence 84 Bologna 1 Inter Milan 2 Real Madrid 6 Real Betis...
From a distance, it looks like an ordinary movie poster. Pasted to a bus shelter wall along Madrid's central Calle Segovia, it depicts a thin child looking upward toward credits printed in that look-at-me font that film-publicity posters seemingly always use. It's only when you get close enough to read the title credits that you realize something is amiss. "Ask Al Gore," one passerby queried his companion. "That's the name of a movie...
...campaign, which was launched in fall 2008 in Madrid and will be rolled out in Paris, London, New York City and Montreal in the next few weeks, features both posters and a trailer for the as-yet-nonexistent film. But its main component is the signature drive. Thus far, more than 37,000 people have signed on to "Ask Al Gore," including several well-known Spanish actors and writers...
...cities still in the running for the 2016 Summer Games - Chicago, Rio de Janeiro, Madrid and Tokyo will hand their final submissions to the IOC this week - are also wary of the downturn. Chicago's plan for the Games rests almost entirely on contributions from businesses, foundations and individuals. "The private funding initiatives on behalf of the general public [are] a well-established precedent in Chicago," says Patrick Ryan, chairman and CEO of Chicago 2016. Ryan remains optimistic that Chicago can raise enough money should it win the Games, not least because Chicago's proposed athletes' village would be located...
...Similar atheist campaigns have run in Barcelona, Madrid and Washington, D.C. But since its Jan. 6 launch, the London scheme has been credited with inspiring atheist bus campaigns in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany and Italy, where next month posters in Genoa will read, "The bad news is that God does not exist. The good news is that we do not need him." The Genoa campaign prompted Father Gianfranco Calabrese, a spokesman for the Archbishop of Genoa, to speak out against what many opponents of the campaign call blasphemy. "There are some methods which promote dialogue and others which feed intolerance...