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...ironically, even though these are definitely role models for your bigger-boned girls everywhere, weight is an issue among them. The winner of the 75-kg class, Colombia's Isabel Maria Urrutia, lifted the same amount as the silver and bronze medalists, but she was awarded the gold because she weighed less. She had lifted in a heavier class until recently when she went to Bulgaria to train. (Bulgaria must have lousy food; a lot of lifters go there to lose weight.) Urrutia won Colombia's first-ever Olympic gold medal in anything, which means she lost all that weight...
...strange and magical ways. It has been oriented entirely around pet creatures, the Pokemon, that start out cute and cuddly but can be trained to become fierce fighting monsters. They are then pitted in battles, like dog- or cockfighting, where they sustain pain and injury until a clear "winner" remains. Ash is a 10-year-old trainer, though for the stage show he and his friends were played by twenty-somethings. (This becomes disconcerting when his mother, looking the same age as him, laments his turning into a man; and Misty, who harbors a secret love for Ash, has moved...
Listening to the music that accompanied the athletes' entrance in the opening ceremony, it was obvious that the wry Australian sense of humor was working well. The entry of the smiling French was heralded by a selection from "Les Miserables"; the Swedish team got "The Winner Takes It All" from the ABBA-loving hosts, while the huge Aussie contingent marched along to half a dozen numbers including the classic "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport...
...Tactically speaking, the campaign is over for both sides. People have already decided who they're going to vote for on Sunday, and we can be sure that on Monday there'll be two winners. Opposition leader Kostunica will get a majority of votes and declare himself the winner, but Milosevic will declare victory anyway. And from that moment on, nobody knows what might happen...
...will revisit the school awards ceremony in which Bertie's shy, normally abstemious friend, asked at the last minute to bestow the prizes, fortifies himself with several drinks, and thus crocked, embarks on an orgy of drunken truth-telling that includes accusing the boy named winner of the Classics Prize of being a nasty little blighter who cheated...