| Dubai's ship comes in - The ultimate arrival for QE2 (Zawya) |
| Dubai, 26 th November 2008: QE2, the world's most famous ocean liner, arrives in Dubai today, exactly forty years to the day from when she first went to sea on her preliminary sea trials on 26 th November 1968. QE2 will make her way along the Dubai coastline to Mina Rashid, where she will be moored before undergoing a transformation that will see her become a centre of culture and luxury on the ... |
| 11/26/2008 |
| Financing of 2010 Winter Games a worry (Seattle Times) |
| As residents of Vancouver voted in a municipal election Saturday, the freeze in credit markets and a collapse of the city's real-estate market have made the financing of the 2010 Winter Games a critical issue. |
| 11/16/2008 |
| Vancouver’s Olympic Plans Hit a Snag (New York Times) |
| When Montreal announced that it would be the host of the 1976 Summer Olympics, Mayor Jean Drapeau promised that the Games could “no more have a deficit than a man can have a baby.” Ultimately the Games left behind about $1.5 billion in unexpected debt that was paid off only two years ago. |
| 11/17/2008 |
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