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...there is no honor in shortcuts. Today's dopers are like Rosie Ruiz's winning the marathon in 1980?because she took the subway. Are Pistorius' blades the equivalent of his attaching wheels to his running shoes? "We end up with these subtle, fascinating debates about what the meaning of competition is, and endless debate over where to draw the line," says Tom Murray, president of the Hastings Center, a bioethics think tank. "Don't underestimate how difficult it will be to evaluate all the technologies that are likely to filter into sport...
...posse head into the subway tunnels, hoping to elude Cloverzilla and get uptown alive. Here's where the movie's one inspiration kicks in. Earlier, we saw the monster shedding parasites that had attached themselves to its hide like barnacles. These dog-size, cricket-faced, crablike creatures can bound like kangaroos, stick to ceilings and attack people without so much...
...Paulino Cubero, the unemployed 52-year-old who won the content, had said he wrote the words "for the nation of average people who take the subway to work and pay their mortgages." But even subway riders and mortgage payers, it seems, are critics. Announcing the recall, Spanish Olympic Committee president Alejandro Blanco explained that "the lyrics just didn't have broad support among Spanish society." A disappointed Cubero was more pointed. "These are the miseries of our nation," he said. "We can only talk about different nations, not a shared...
...That's what makes it unique! You mention L'Auberge Espagnole as a symbol of the renewal of French cinema, but that was five years ago. The Taxi movies? Yes, they were blockbusters, but they were also the lousiest films made by Luc Besson. His artistic achievements were Nikita, Subway, Le Grand Bleu and Léon - and those were years ago. French culture is about intimacy. We French live in a cultural world that is very different from the Americans', so before even beginning to judge ours, please do your homework. Learn French, read our books and our cultural...
...became a senior executive at the conglomerate Hyundai at age 36 and played a role in the nation's rapid economic development in the 1970s and '80s. As mayor of Seoul from 2002 to 2006, Lee won praise for his management of the city, putting an end to recurring subway strikes and creating a new green space in the center of town by uncovering a formerly paved-over river. But he has also had to apologize for faking his address in the 1980s to get his children into better school districts, and is accused of avoiding taxes by improperly registering...