Boston Phoenix
Obamalympics: Is Obama's lobbying of the IOC a recipe for multi-billion-dollar financial disaster?
Published 9/29/2009 by Carly Carioli
Let Madrid, Rio, or Tokyo have the 2016 Olympic Games. Mr. President, if you love Chicago, you will ask the IOC to spend that summer...

Boston Phoenix
The Olympic (shell) games
Published 9/25/2009 by ANNE ELIZABETH MOORE
Next week, we’ll find out if an American city will host the 2016 Olympic Games — and if Boston has a shot at 2020. Despite the glitzy international attention, there are billions of reasons why every debt-saddled American should hope that the US does not get the gold.

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