Phew! New York won't host the Olympics

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As a New Yorker (OK, I live in the suburbs now, but my 18 years in Gotham give me lifetime membership), I’m glad to see the Olympic Games won’t be in New York in 2012. To me, the endless shilling of New York as a great place to hold the Olympics was a little embarrassing, the relentless sucking up to Olympic officials by everyone from Hillary Clinton to Muhammad Ali to Henry Kissinger excruciating. And those

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