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After decades of economic decline and population shrinkage - and a prickly attitude that repelled visitors and investors alike - Marseilles is hot again. Its growing popularity is changing the city's long-standing reputation as a closed, clannish, and corruption-plagued place where people were more interested in swilling pastis and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mediterranean Mecca | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

The partying went on until 2 a.m. in front of the Hôtel de Ville, Paris' city hall, as Delanoë made a victory speech and accordionists entertained champagne-swilling supporters of his Socialist-Communist-Green coalition. But while they celebrated wresting control of the French capital from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pyrrhic Victories | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

Oh, I've seen the dark side of this week, too: Too many rich white people swilling $400 bottles of champagne, barely veiled sexism, homophobia and elitism. I've struggled to maintain my objectivity as I covered pro-choice protests outside Philadelphia's most exclusive restaurants and clubs, fighting the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Liberal Confesses: Some Republicans Rock! | 8/4/2000 | See Source »

Felipe, 23, a construction worker, says he didn't know any better when he and a buddy cruised down the streets of Edwards, Colo., in their Chevy Blazer last month, swilling Tecate beer and blasting disco music through the late-night stillness. "Hey, we do that all the time back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Class for Strangers In a Strange Land | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

Please inform the author that he may use as many colorful Celtic stereotypes as he can find. He may therefore depict Celts as hard-drinking, red-haired, freckle-faced, hot-tempered, trouble-making, bar-fighting, blue-face-painted, war-crying, shillelagh-wielding, whiskey-swilling, barbaric, primitive, illiterate, sheep-loving, green...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 4/21/2000 | See Source »

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