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...Deputy from Bolivia's central coca-growing region, Morales in the past was often dismissed as a radical relic in the land where Che Guevara died. But today he's strong enough to have made it into this week's presidential runoff vote in the new parliament, facing front runner Gonzalo Sanchez, a former President. More than that, Evo-speak--"The drug war is just a U.S. excuse to control our countries"--resonates beyond Bolivia's borders. Next door in Peru, irate coca farmers have successfully pressured the government to suspend eradication. In Colombia, the coca crop has grown fivefold...
...which stacked the five mountain stages at the end, it was perhaps Armstrong's easiest Tour win, if easy can be applied to a grueling three-week event that took riders over 3,270 km of rolling valleys and vertiginous mountain peaks. With one-time winner and three-time runner-up Jan Ullrich of Germany sidelined with a knee injury and legendary Italian climber Marco Pantani under drug suspension, Armstrong had only one real challenger - Spanish climber Joseba Beloki of once, who finished 7:17 behind...
Bernie Williams followed Giambi by bouncing a single that (of course) skipped under the glove of right fielder Trot Nixon, allowing the runner to score and Williams to advance to third base. The Yanks went on to win with a bases-loaded walk drawn by Jorge Posada...
...house ticket this summer is for one cool movie. Atanarjuat--The Fast Runner has won festival prizes and critics' raves, and not only because it's the first fiction feature made about the Canadian Inuit by an Inuit director, Zacharias Kunuk, and writer, the late Paul Apak Angilirq. If that were the film's only distinction, it might get shown in natural-history museums. Atanarjuat will soon be in 60 U.S. cities because it is a ripping yarn and a spectacularly new and odd vision...
...dreams of being the party's nominee. And each knows that the election's first contest is the money primary. Back when George W. Bush was just a first-term Texas Governor with a famous last name, his lineup of $100,000 fund raisers made him the G.O.P. front runner--a year before anyone in Iowa had a chance to caucus. In 2004 money could matter more than ever because the primaries will be concentrated at the beginning of the election calendar, forcing candidates to campaign nationwide from the start. And the nominee will need a bigger donor base, because...