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...double faults. Even the girls' normally blistering serves slowed down by as much as 30 km/h. When the sister act reaches Wimbledon later this month, the one-two combination will probably produce another Williams final - but preferably one that will show the sisters at their best. ATHLETICS Doping Doubts Allegations that an American gold medal winner at the 2000 Olympics failed a drugs test a year before emerged during a World Anti-doping Agency summit in Montreal. According to a confidential enquiry chaired by Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren, the unnamed athlete tested positive for the banned anabolic steroid nandrolone...
...this project, this "Ecstasy shopping spree, disguised as a book." More optimistically, another friend hopes the book will provide a kind of "cultural prism." The Promised Land doesn't quite live up to that billing, but it does deliver a light, breezy narrative with some astute snapshots of international dope meccas, more than a few chuckles, and an ending that leaves the reader coming down like the end of a good, night-long buzz. (Too bad the manuscript didn't have a better editor?or a decent fact-checker. Note to Decca: Spike Lee directed the film Malcolm...
...that played during his conception? His songs suggest he knows his late-'70s New York punk bands backward and forwards, but a distinctive voice emerges in every one, one that reflects the been-there-done-that milieu of early '00s Manhattan prep school youth rather than the conspicuously aggravated, dope-addled CBGBs crowd of twenty-five years ago. My guess is The Strokes would sooner die than hold forth with a Patti Smith-style poetry-reading-over-extended-jam-session, a jazzy, Tom Verlaine guitar solo, or one of the Ramones' ceaseless power-chord assaults, the way a nostalgia...
...because he's been unable to deliver on a promise to break up a romance between J.J.'s adored young sister Susie and Steve Dallas, a promising young singer. Desperate to return to J.J.'s good graces, he has the inspiration to plant a smear of Dallas, as a dope-smoking Red, in a rival column. That little trick doesn't drive the lovers apart so, on J.J.'s orders, Sidney plants reefers on Dallas and has him arrested and assaulted by a corrupt cop named Harry Kello. Later that night Sidney is summoned to J.J.'s penthouse apartment...
...cultivation, sale and use of marijuana is awaiting final approval by Parliament, probably next year. In Lausanne as a result, turf wars among the city's heroin dealers - most of them refugees from Albania and the former Yugoslavia - are rare and the city is developing an Amsterdamish attitude to dope...