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...gold medals on offer, with Yang Xia taking the 53-kg gold in a new world record total of 225 kg. Yang's compatriots, Xiaomen Chen in the 63 kg and Weining Lin in the 69 kg categories, completed the hat trick for China. However, it was Bulgaria's Izabela Dragneva who won the first women's Olympic gold with a total lift of 190 kg in the 48-kg class. And surprise results gave Soraya Jimenez Mendivil Mexico's first weight-lifting gold, while Maria Isabel Urrutia will be taking home Colombia's first-ever Olympic medal. Jimenez Mendivil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pulling Their Weight | 9/20/2000 | See Source »

...executing a version of the Dick Morris game plan, using issues to gild himself and tar his opponent--hence the Democrats' ads attacking Bush's health-care record in Texas for leaving too many poor children without coverage. "Gore's ads make Texas look like it's Belize or Bulgaria or someplace where kids live in huts with no roofs and everything's polluted," said a Bush adviser. "They are really hurting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: How Bush Lost His Edge | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

...past books, Rowling introduces new elements and characters to keep readers on their toes. This time the trip to school on the Hogwarts Express does not occur until Harry and friends attend the 422nd Quidditch World Cup, pitting Ireland against Bulgaria, in front of a crowd of 100,000 wizards and witches, all of whom managed to assemble unseen by any oblivious Muggles. Back at Hogwarts, the students learn that something called the Triwizard Tournament will take place during the school year, involving competitors from two other magic-training establishments, Beauxbatons Academy and Durmstrang Institute. (Guess, from their names, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wait Was Worth It: That Old Harry Magic Is Back Again | 7/8/2000 | See Source »

...that a cybercriminal world of conspiratorial smugglers, scofflaws, crooked banks and tax evaders is impossible. Such countries already exist. It's just that they're not anyone's idea of high-tech paradise. They are places like Bulgaria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Cyber Criminals Run The World? | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...Martens skinhead stompers). The mistakes in men's designs - fortunately or unfortunately - do not have the (screwball) style of the women's errors. The men's shoes merely have about them an air of stolid, depressing stupidity, as if they had been designed 40 years ago in Communist Bulgaria. I trudge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Stinks How We've Gone Mad for Crazy Shoes | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

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