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...idea that Lance Armstrong could be beaten in the Tour de France this year. The talk started weeks before the event, indications that Spanish teams, which were riding well, were seeing chinks in his armor. Armstrong had won the Dauphiné-Libéré and the Midi Libre, two tough multiday stage races before the Tour, but he didn't win their individual time trials, events that used to be his strength. And didn't he finish second in the Criterium International last March? Didn't that show his vulnerability...
...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...
...certain kind of mindless cookie-cutter workmanship, like Warhol without the ironic distance. The only track on the album that doesn't just shriek with brain-bursting insignificance is the instrumental last track, "Rebel Heart." The fiddle from previous Corr albums is back, albeit surrounded by the same MIDI-file accompaniment that infests the rest of this God-forsaken album. "Rebel Heart" is worse than, say, the least interesting track on the Braveheart soundtrack, but at least it's not an embarrassment before God and Nature...
...first formal training was classical piano. I was also in a progressive hardcore band with Shawn and Jon called This is My Rifle. And I've been experimenting with electronic music--sequencing, MIDI, a K-2000 sampler...
...Harvard University Band's Web site has vastly improved in recent months. With songs now played out in full and recorded in MPEG format, the site has gone from samples in MIDI format to clear sounding Harvard songs--a must for any student with an MPEG player. Additionally, the site clearly marks out the different band links...