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...linked to a special Health Ministry squad, to carry out a rapid-fire sweep of five residences where Austrians were staying in Pragelato Plan and Cesana San Sicario, the two hamlets hosting the cross-country and biathlon events. The Saturday-night raid was a first-ever antidoping police blitz at an Olympics, and the i.o.c. came along. So while the police scoured the houses and the athletes for any evidence of doping substances or equipment, Olympic officials demanded that 10 Austrian athletes give urine samples. It was well after midnight when the commotion had cleared. Some athletes complained that guns...
...would be interesting to have a change." Stark as the differences are, the acute sense of period and themes of lesbian love and relationships unfolding that distinguished Waters' earlier work get full play in this vivid, compassionate re-creation of 1940s London, which starts postwar and reverses into the Blitz. Her characters seem to be taking life one day at a time. Jealousy-riddled Helen and flighty Julia are lovers - but for how long? Helen's ex, Kay, after being fully incorporated into the war effort as an ambulance driver, finds herself marginalized for her sexual preferences. Vivien, who runs...
Toymakers love to license popular TV and movie characters. Dora the Explorer products did $1.4 billion in sales last year alone. So it's no surprise that Curious George--star of a new movie and a PBS series launching this fall--is at the center of his own merchandising blitz. The Tickle 'n Giggle doll by Toy Biz has one up on the classic Elmo doll: a secret, random tickle spot that, when discovered, produces a big belly laugh. Price $25 Available...
...more bankable names than hers to pick from. She jokes that fame has eluded her because her name is hard to pronounce (say Ma-cork-run) and has to be printed small to fit on the spine. Fame may find her in early October with the media blitz that will accompany Peter Pan in Scarlet when it's published in English in the U.K. and the U.S., and in translation in markets across Europe and Asia. Low profile or not, the fact is McCaughrean, 54, is already a bona fide publishing phenomenon with more than 130 titles and a roster...
Even as the White House launches a media blitz to portray its controversial wiretapping program as a perfectly legal weapon in the war on terror, administration officials have begun dropping subtle hints-without explicitly saying so-that President Bush could go to Congress to seek more specific authority to listen in on U.S. citizens who are suspected of entanglement with terrorists. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales added to such speculation Tuesday by asserting during a series of television interviews that the law setting up an apparatus requiring warrants for such eavesdropping-the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA-might be outmoded...