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Miami Battling 34 Cities To Host 2024 Summer Olympics

The Olympic flag is raised during the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games on July 27, 2012 at the Olympic stadium in London. AFP PHOTO / JOHN MACDOUGALL (Source: JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/GettyImages)

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MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Miami received a letter from U.S. Olympics Committee chief Scott Blackmun this week, in which the Olympics boss informed the city it is being considered for hosting the 2024 Olympic games.

The Magic City will need to pull quite a rabbit out of its hat to win that honor, however, as the city is among 34 others being considered. The other contenders include the country’s 25 largest cities plus 10 others, including Orlando and Jacksonville, reports CBS4 news partner The Miami Herald.

Miami-Dade Commissioner Jose “Pepe”Campus directory

The campus directory's one of those surprisingly critical projects, even if it's not the most glamorous. Finding the right person at a university with tens of thousands of staff and faculty, and hundreds of departments isn't easy, otherwise. The annual directory had two forms: a printed directory book, and an online directory. Each year, a different unit on campus would be featured on the cover.

It took years to convince the administration that a printed directory wasn't cost-efficient any longer, as the individual listings were out of date as soon as the book was printed. Also, each book became very expensive, because only a few departments were willing to pay for them and supply their entire staff, so the per unit cost went up. While you'd think that