Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe THINGS WE DON'T UNDERSTAND Responding to the United States Olympic Committee's management dysfunction, a task force of the committee proposed drastic restructuring of the organization. Advertisement It would shrink the U.S.O.C.'s board of directors from 125 seats to 9, eliminate its executive committee and stiffen the organization's ethical spine, The New York Times reports. The Olympic committee's image has suffered from ethical violations, reports of questionable management and financial decisions, and criticism by members of Congress angry enough to threaten government control. "Congress views the Olympic movement and the U.S.O.C., in the best sense, as it views Iraq," says Steve Bull, the Olympic committee's director of government relations, "a country with a rich cultural history, valuable natural resources and a noble people, whose government structure ill served its best interests." NEWS OF OTHER LIFE FORMS A New York City grand jury has slapped murder charges on a 22-year-old Brooklyn man who allegedly killed a 71-year-old grandmother as part of an insurance scam. Waurd Demolaire is accused of crashing into a car driven by Alice Ross sending her car out of control and slamming it into a tree, the New York Post reports. Advertisement Demolaire and his two passengers were allegedly hoping to collect insurance money by pretending they were injured in the staged crash, according to Queens District Attorney Richard Brown. The three complained of bogus neck and back injuries, but sneaked out of the hospital after learning the elderly woman had died, according to the Brown TODAY'S SIGN THE WORLD IS ENDING Jeff Einstein tells The New York Times how he landed his job as salesman at one of The Gap stores in New York City. The Gap had held a group interview for the Christmas rush last year and the 20 people were told to introduce themselves and explain their last position. "There was a cashier from McDonald's, a woman who had worked at Baby Gap, a ticket collector from Loews and a gift wrapper from Barnes & Noble," Einstein says. "Then I said, I used to be an executive vice president for Rapp Digital, a digital media company with 300 employees." AND FINALLY, TODAY'S UPLIFTING STORY In a federally funded survey of almost 20,000 Australians ages 16 to 59, 90 percent of men and 79 percent of women rated their sex lives as "extremely" or "very" pleasurable, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Advertisement The Australians rarely stray outside their regular relationship in search of sex -- less than 4.5 percent. Most Australians in a regular heterosexual relationship have sex less than twice a week at 1.8 compared with the French at 2.1. But more than a third of Australians would like sex four to six times a week.
