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...gives us a brilliant series of intertwining vignettes about the performance-enhancing drug trade in the Sydney Olympics. Benicio Del Toro is a conflicted, street-smart International Olympic Committee official who tries and fails to deal with the problem. Catherine Zeta-Jones is an Olympic gymnast who loses her gold medal after testing positive for banned substances found in common vitamin supplements. Michael Douglas is IOC Chair Juan Antonio Samaranch, who is too busy accepting bribes from various cities that want the games to fix anything...
...realm that promised enormous riches, and the entrepreneur was king. Employees of established companies jumped ship to join the Internet gold rush, their fledgling firms funded by venture capitalists desperate to get a piece of the next big thing. And as those companies listed on the stock markets, financial institutions got in on the act, driving valuations and share prices through the roof. On March 10, 2000, Germany's Neuer Markt, France's Nouveau Marché, Italy's Nuovo Mercato and the granddaddy of the high-tech bourses, America's nasdaq, all reached new peaks. Then the tide turned, taking...
...Girls say they like his strong jaw and jutting cheekbones. Married women prefer his listening skills and languorous back rubs. For an all-night chat session with these lonely wives, Zhang expects only a good dinner and a little farewell gift, like a leather cell-phone holder or monogrammed gold lighter. But if they want something more, he expects at least $120 in cash. "We never talk about price beforehand," he says. "That's tacky. But these women know how these things work...
...discovering my disappointing budget and skeptical tastes, the shopkeeper directed me up the street to the Chinese medicine counter of the Yue Hwa Chinese Products store. That was like a treasure chest of herbal helpers. I read the box labels and admired the packaging, most of it red and gold, some of it vaguely pornographic. All of the products make wide-ranging claims. East Superman Pills: "Strengthening the functional activities of the loins and knees, and the sinews and the bone as well." Strong Man Bao: "Fights recurring back aches, depression, degeneration and impotency." Chinese Dragon Tonic: "Battles impotence, lassitude...
...over the weekend. Instead, as her friend sat in a juvenile-detention center charged with attempted homicide, Oglesby stopped by Bush's home last Friday night to console her parents and to drop off a gift she knew her friend would appreciate: earrings in the shape of two gold crosses...