Mary Griswold has been working on Olympic programs since the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She spoke with Alexandra Bruell about what makes Beijing a thoroughly unique experience.

For Ann Wool, Beijing will be the ninth Olympic Games she has worked on, the first dating back to the 1992 Barcelona Games. She spoke with Alexandra Bruell about those experiences, and negotiating different cultures and regulations to get the job done.

LOS ANGELES: The Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners awarded two, three-year contracts June 19 to The Rogers Group, for $750,000, and Hill & Knowlton, for $600,000, for upcoming communications initiatives related to The Port of Los Angeles.

In Douglas Adams' book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a computer program running for seven-and-a-half million years finally determines the answer to "life, the universe, and everything" is 42. This not-helpful answer requires a whole new program to determine what the question was in the first place.

Job and content cuts apparently won't be enough by themselves to pay off Tribune Co.'s approximately $13 million in debt.

"I am aware of all Internet traditions." Most of you will read that statement as a mere procession of words. To a small number of you, it's the latest sensation in Internet phraseology; the blogger's equivalent of, "Where's The Beef?"

The fashion industry often is criticized for its singular portrayal of women: long-limbed, scary skinny, perennially adolescent, and, say some, overwhelmingly "white."

In this week's Expert Q&A, Mark Hynes, MD of IR for PR Newswire and chairperson of the Disclosure Advisory Board (DAB), talks about why the DAB was launched, the group's new white paper, and XBRL.

This week's big question: - When the NBA settles its labor problems, what should the PR team do to revive its image?

LONDON: WPP Group said it is moving as quickly as possible to sell a Young & Rubicam-affiliated subsidiary in Zimbabwe whose majority owner serves as communications adviser to the country's president, Robert Mugabe.