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...star actress also confessed that she used to enjoyed snorting cocaine in the 1980s but gave up the class-A drug when "they caught Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon, in the early eighties," making money with the drug is South America...
...restaurant's name has curious origins. Ambassade (Embassy) is an outpost of L'Auberge de L'Ile, Ansanay-Alex's two-Michelin-star place on L'Ile Barbe in Lyon. Trivia collectors will be delighted to know that L'Ile Barbe is one of those wacky microstates, where eccentric residents - fired-up by some long-simmering grievance with the central government - declare independence and start printing their own stamps and passports. In the case of L'Ile Barbe, the "break" from France happened in 1977, 14 years after the islet was declared, in a move hugely unpopular with locals...
...things seem relatively staid. Boo. Since every athlete, in theory at least, could win a medal right now, it makes sense that folks are playing it cool at the moment. "It'll be a way better experience if you're not sloshed the whole time," says Canadian archer Jay Lyon. Not that Lyon has a choice - since alcohol is a depressant and could keep a jittery marksman calmer, beer is considered a performance enhancer in archery. He can't sip a drink for a month. Smart rule: drunk archers can't be good for their fans either...
...should know. He had already married Lyon and Martin once before, in 2004. "Disgusted and outraged" at President George W. Bush's State of the Union address that year, the mayor decided to challenge California's ban on gay marriage by giving a marriage license to the couple. More than 4,000 other couples followed suit, and while their weddings were later voided, the court challenge led to last month's Supreme Court decision in favor of gay marriage...
...time Newsom presided over Lyon and Martin's new marriage on Monday, the battle lines for the fight in the fall had begun to form. Gay marriage opponents held signs and yelled slogans outside courthouses there and in other locations where weddings were about to take place. In addition, California's top Roman Catholic prelate issued a statement reiterating the church's opposition to gay marriage. "The church cannot approve of redefining marriage, which has a unique place in God's creation, joining a man and a woman in a committed relationship in order to nurture and support...