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...year-old climbing specialist tested positive for the banned blood booster erythropoietin (EPO), French anti-doping agency officials told reporters. French police immediately took Riccò into custody, as the now familiar scene of chaos erupted, with photographers and name-calling fans swarming around his Saunier Duval team's yellow bus. The entire Spanish team subsequently pulled out of the competition before Thursday's start of stage...
...looking for a cyanide capsule." This wasn't any old fund raiser: it was held for the Louvre, in the Louvre - in the vaulted Galerie Daru at the bottom of the stairs leading up to the Winged Victory of Samothrace. There, seated at two immense mirrored tables decorated with yellow orchids - and surrounded by 2,000-year-old statues of Roman emperors, including a naked Julius Caesar - the guests dined on asparagus soufflé and veal noisettes before the grand finale: a charity auction and a Duran Duran concert held under the Louvre's landmark glass pyramid. The evening raised...
...while the young, home-based players are certainly hungrier than the European contingent are to represent their country, their motivation may not be entirely patriotic. Simply wearing the yellow shirt is enough to win them a contract from Europe that will set them up for life - even if it earns them the ire of the fans currently championing their cause...
Futebol, or soccer, has for a half century been the very heartbeat of Brazilian national pride as generation after generation of exquisitely talented players has donned the national team's canary-yellow jersey and showed the world how the "beautiful game" should be played. And Europe's elite leagues have long honored Brazil's contribution to the game by bringing dozens of Brazilian players to star in their top teams. But Brazil may have been a victim of its own success: Today, the national team is struggling, and the resultant crisis in national pride has enraged everyone from the fans...
...exhibit, at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo through July 18, begins with a case stuffed with yards of yellow police tape and centers on a tower of about 20 empty pizza boxes. The pizza tower is surrounded by hundreds of empty Gatorade and water bottles and festooned with a disposable haz-mat suit, rubber gloves and unused collection jars. On the wall are a framed half-smoked cigar and a scribbled to-do list ("Sign warrant...