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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
October 3, 2009
COPENHAGEN — Like sweet, sultry samba music, Rio hit all the right notes.
Chicago had Barack Obama. Tokyo had $4 billion in the bank. Madrid had powerful friends. But none of that mattered. Rio de Janeiro had the enchanting story — of about 400 million sports-mad people on a giant untapped and....