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CITY OF GLUTES.
All bad things--car alarms, the wait at Starbucks, dental work--go on forever, but good things inevitably come to an end. And so the Olympics are over. Like every Olympic fortnight, this one produced stories and images that will stay in viewers' minds for years to come, but, luckily, at least by the middle of last week, none of those images were associated with bombs or guns or any other form of terrorism. The billion and a half dollars that was spent on security during the Games paid off, and NBC's announcers, for their part, helpfully refrained from referring to the issue and increasing the unspoken anxiety in the air. But, as always, there were plenty of other ...
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