Tainted hero Virenque ends polka-dot era
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Richard Virenque, the French rider described once as &quot;incarnating the issue of doping&quot; finally called time yesterday on a career in which, against the odds, he survived the biggest drugs scandal in sport since Ben Johnson to retain a place in the hearts
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The battle between OK! and Hello! magazines over Catherine Zeta Jones' wedding pictures ends.
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match. But Dechy rose to the moment and beat a top-10 player for the first. Kuznetsova, ranked No. 4, was rattled and committed 77 unforced errors.
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Gabe: I had planned on making a couple posts last week but I ended up getting some kind of devil virus. It was the sort of sick where you don't really sleep. You just curl up in the bathroom and hallucinate that wolves are encircling you. I'm feeling better now though.I had wanted to talk about some stuff but I forgot almost all of it during my spirit quest. Let me see if I can remember anything. Sorry if this is sort of scattershot.I did go to the Pokemon Tournament and I ended up taking fourth. It was my first tourney and I was using a pretty crazy deck I'd built just a few days prior. Kiko also went and he took fifth even though we had the same win loss record during the day. They used some special Pokemon math to push me in to the final four and give him fifth. I pretty proud of both of us. It was a new level of competition that we'd never seen before and I think we played really well.If you're a fan of Transformers I highly recommend the new animated series on Cartoon Network. Some people might be turned off by the look but I think it's incredible. It's got a very Teen Titans look which makes sense seeing as it's by the same people. Even in vehicle mode these transformers are expressive and full of character. I read Amulet over the weekend (don't believe the date on his site, it is already in stores) and if you are a fan of comics I suggest you do the same. I don't want to say too much about it. I think that Kazu is one of the most talented individuals working in comics today. With Amulet he has created something timeless. I've collected all your Dickerdoodle pictures and there's some pretty great stuff in there. Give me some time to sort through them and I'll start posting my favorites soon. I'll get Tycho to help me pick a winner and we'll find something cool here in the office as a prize.-Gabe out
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Jean-Marie Messier, the former chief of Vivendi Universal SA who is under investigation for alleged fraud and stock manipulation, was fined 1 million euros ($1.3 million) by French regulator
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Richard Virenque, one of France's most popular and successful cyclists, has retired from the sport aged 34.
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&quot;Come on, baby!&quot; Jaslyn Hewitt&#39;s support for Joachim Johansson, her Swedish boyfriend, was clear on Thursday night as he ended Andy Roddick&#39;s reign as US Open champion in Arthur Ashe Stadium.
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New York - The Web portal Lycos Europe on Friday terminated a spam-fighting campaign that had been criticized as a breach of Internet civility.
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The legendary mime Marcel Marceau is no more.
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French designer Christian Lacroix closed a key chapter in his 18-year career on Tuesday as luxury group LVMH said it had sold the loss-making label to a privately held U.S. investment company.
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The decision to abandon a high-profile case against a dotcom poster boy marks the end of a sorry era
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After months of speculation, Vivendi announces that Half-Life 2 has officially gone gold and will be on shelves in less than one month.
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The Web portal Lycos Europe on Friday terminated a spam-fighting campaign that had been criticized as a breach of Internet civility.
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Vivendi Universal and its former chief executive Jean-Marie Messier have each been fined 1m euros ($1.3m; Â£690,000) by French regulators.
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The creator of Half-Life 2, Valve, has won a legal fight to stop Vivendi distributing its titles to cyber cafes. The ruling bars Vivendi distributing games such as Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike to these pay-for-play venues.
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Tycho:  Gears multi had just become a nightly fixture, and then - wholly without warning - it was over.  A pack of downloadable maps (already in progress?) might give us another night or two on Sera, but the reality is that the rest of Team Inferno has moved on to Rainbow Six.
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Mozart, the troubled daughter of Flower, the late matriarch of the Whiskers clan on the popular Animal Planet series âMeerkat Manor,â died at the end of Fridayâs episode; it was the second death to shake fans of the showâs loveable but hard-luck stars in a month.