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...banlieue housing projects, it's also been an open secret for some time now that the hipper members of the nation's affluent business and political classes aren't averse to a discreet puff. Indeed, France's cannabis culture has become so prevalent that the use of the word petard is as likely to refer to a joint as to its more literal meaning, "firecracker." Myriad nicknames for hash and marijuana have passed into the modern lexicon, such as chichon, beuh, teuteu, matos and teuch - the latter being an approximate phonic reversal of the borrowed English word most commonly used...
...most medical studies show cannabis to be fairly innocuous - in some cases even remedial of afflictions - and in any case, far less dangerous to health than tobacco or his glass of vino. "There's a certain degree of risk in anything you do, including eating!" he says, passing his petard to his laconic chum. "Risk and indulgence is inherent in the French way of life. It's part of our joie de vivre." Perhaps, but if the Observatory's study is accurate, the French joie is increasingly chemically assisted...
...plot-bound live-action films could not. The Wachowski-written Second Renaissance, Parts 1 and 2, mini-epics in their own right, describe how man began the war with machines and how the Matrix came into being (in the usual dystopic, postapocalyptic anim? tradition, man is hoisted by the petard of his own pride). The taut Program is set in a simulacrum of feudal Japan; Detective Story somehow turns the Wachowskis' vision into film noir, complete with fog, fedoras?and Trinity in (what else?) tight, black leather...
...Conan the Non-Barbarian close to getting $7.5 million deal to re-sign with NBC. It's nice to finally see someone from Harvard make good Losers PRINCE HENRIK Queen of Denmark's consort feels slighted by other royals. Lucky Danes don't settle grudges with poison, incest or petard-hoisting anymore RUDOLPH GIULIANI His Ex-Honor criticized by fire and police unions for attending premiere of Collateral Damage. And then he actually had to sit through the film JAMES BROWN Employee sues Soul man for sexual harassment. When he said to her, "Get on up and shake your money...
...Losers PETER BUCK Giving happy people shiners? Guitarist for the American rock group R.E.M. is arrested for assaulting two British Airways crew members ANATOLI KARPOV Rooked with his own petard! Russian chess champ loses to a Greek dental student who studied the master's moves on the Internet JENNA BUSH A chip off the presidential block? George W.'s 19-year-old daughter is ticketed for booze possession in Austin, Texas. That's a crime...