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NBC's Money-Losing Beijing Olympics Will Actually Be Profitable Once Some Accounting Trickery Is EmployedLike many publicly traded companies last week, General Electric released its quarterly report and showed a dip in profit ($4.31b this quarter, compared to last year's $5.56b), which was expected. But Friday's paperwork also revealed one startling discovery: The Beijing Olympics, which GE's NBC u... |
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Time Warner Summit: Politics 2008 Ticket Giveaway Winners AnnouncedTwo weeks ago, we held a ticket giveaway to the Time Warner Summit: Politics 2008 conference. Time Warner Summit: Politics 2008 is a conference that brings attendees face to face with thought leaders in media, politics, technology, finance, entertainment, and advertising. We asked our readers w... |
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Sports Briefing | Olympics: Countries Failed to Share Locations of Their AthletesNearly half the countries that participated in the Beijing Olympics failed to tell organizers where their athletes were so they could be drug-tested outside of competition. ... |
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Olympic athletes kept under wraps for testingNearly half the countries that participated in the Beijing Olympics failed to tell organizers where their athletes were so they could be drug tested outside of competition. ... |
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Appealing to Basketball Fans Through Well-Meaning RacismWas the hiring of Yi Jianlian, a 7-ft tall starter from China, a covert move by the New Jersey Nets to attract all the kids from Chinatown? That seems to be the assertion: some sort of national pride will attract the inhabitants of BeBo (below Bowery) to come see a fellow statesman in an NBA gam... |
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Cheats beware, Games samples re-testedDRUG cheats who competed in the Beijing Olympics could well be caught by a new testing system. ... |

