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...Only the very top athletes are supplied and administered by doping experts," says Pierre Dolivet, director of the Chalet du Thianty, France's other in-patient drug center catering to athletes. "The non-stars usually improvise with drugs and doses-often even sharing syringes, despite the aids threat. When you see what these people are doing to themselves you understand the darker meaning of ?winning at any cost...
...excitement is palpable among the crowd gathered in the Café Puerto Habana, a brick-walled restaurant atop the banks of the Canal du Midi in the southwestern city of Toulouse (voting pop. 400,000). Though weary from five months of volunteer work, this group of teachers, social workers, civil servants, artists and unemployed are meeting to continue preparations for a revolution: breaking the decades-old lock that traditional parties and career politicians have had on political life in Toulouse. "The aim of this goes far beyond seeking power, or the upcoming election," says Salah Amokrane, 37, head...
...things got worse. But from the teens to the mid-1940s, the joint jumped. Claude McKay celebrated the idea of coming Home to Harlem, where life was sensuous and exotic; Zora Neale Hurston moved up there after writing Their Eyes Were Watching God; Countee Cullen wrote his poems; W.E.B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey delivered their polemics; and Lena Horne sang in the chorus at Ed Small's Sugar Cane Club...
...matter of weeks, and that he needed some cash to pay his expenses to Washington, where he would redeem the Federal Reserve note before it expired. In exchange, he offered to pay back 1%?or $1 million to $5 million?on every note cashed in. "It is the scam du jour," says U.S. Secret Service agent David Popp, a former White House bodyguard now stationed in Manila to protect U.S. monetary instruments against an onslaught of hustles, swindles and fakes that have sprung up in the Philippines...
...Shadow of the Vampire, and Joaquin Phoenix, whose performance as the envious Roman aristocrat in Gladiator will get him bigger roles but not an Oscar, yet. Del Toro has three arguments in his favor. One: he's quite good in the film. Two: he's the hottie du jour, sleepily sensual and muy macho, with a touch of the Method. Three: he's the standard bearer for a dozen or so superb actors in Traffic; Del Toro was the only one nominated...