Farm Accident Digest

February 24th, 2005

A Full Term After He's Out Of Office

The useful, uncorruptable, world bettering people from the International Olympic Committee were recently treated to the best New York has to offer.

Later on Wednesday, the group was wooed by Meryl Streep, Barbara Walters and Whoopi Goldberg and heard Wynton Marsalis play at a Jazz at Lincoln Centre performance
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Next came dinner at Bloomberg's Upper East Side home with guests including Henry Kissinger, Matt Damon, Vera Wang and Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the artists behind the orange Central Park exhibit "The Gates."

The group was then treated to a performance by Paul Simon who played such old hits as "The Sound of Silence" and "The Boxer."

Garfunkel was believed to have been spotted bussing tables.

President George W Bush boosted New York's bid for the 2012 Olympics, sending a message of assurance to an International Olympic Commission group that the US government was prepared to help cover security costs - which soared above $1bn in Athens last year.

Swell.

you wouldn't believe how many people in New York City are hating this whole scheme. Traffic, security nightmares...it's not worth it.

Posted By jessimica on Feb 24th, 2005 at 10:14am

Oh, I'm sure the idea is only popular with the people who will be invited to the kickass parties or who can afford to escape for a few weeks.

Posted By fad on Feb 24th, 2005 at 10:20am

Oh, I so hope NY gets it. It will mean London doesn't, and the last thing London needs is more bloody people. The public transport system here can't handle our residents and existing tourists, never mind the hundreds of thousands more that the bloody Olympics would bring.

Posted By Lizzie on Feb 24th, 2005 at 2:13pm

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