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Let's Go Back to Beijing in 2012

Economic crisis makes spending billions on 2012 London Games unjustifiable

By Jason Farago, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 26, 2008 10:11 AM CST

(Newser) – With the economic crisis taking billions out of Britain’s coffers, spending billions more to get ready for the 2012 Olympics makes no sense, writes Alice Miles in the Times of London, who foresees a day when “the unemployed, the homeless, and the destitute... Read full story »

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