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...this year he dropped the modest, underdog thing. Even the victim stuff had expired: despite unveiling his wobbly French, he was booed by the French on the eve of the race for kicking a Frenchman off his team--though, really, what wouldn't the French boo if it's in their country and isn't French? Then, like a true American, he went on to posterize--just like Jordan did to Ewing--Jan Ullrich...
COLIN POWELL On eve of his visit, China coughs up two "convicted spies." Maybe he threatened to sing for supper...
...Last Sunday night, on the eve of her dramatic triumph in a bitter power struggle for the Indonesian presidency, she was to be found not huddling with advisers, but watching the animated movie "Shrek." By all accounts Megawati has always imagined herself less a politician than a princess - the daughter of an overthrown king who would one day oust the usurper, reclaim her father's throne and save the nation...
...sort of fearlessness has also deepened my work. In Eve's Bayou in 1997, I played a crazy old hag who practiced voodoo. With my face painted white, I was extremely unattractive. I had to work differently, dig deeper, when the tool I was used to relying on--my looks--was taken away. Before the cancer, I would never have allowed a director to destroy what I considered to be Diahann Carroll. But I felt replenished by the role...
...clean it up?by getting rid of bad bank loans, privatizing government-run behemoths like the postal service and killing useless public-works projects. But he also warned that it would hurt at first: salaries would shrink, jobs disappear. Now, he's retelling that tale of gloom on the eve of the July 29 election to the upper house of parliament. His Liberal Democratic Party needs to retain a majority of seats for Koizumi to remain in office. But unlike his predecessors?Japan has had nine Prime Ministers in the past 10 years?Koizumi isn't trying to sway...