So how do you say "feeding frenzy" in french?: This morning's Journal de Montreal -- the biggest tabloid in Quebec; think the New York Post en francais -- reported Montreal Canadiens goalie Jose Theodore has friends who just happen to be Hells Angels.

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Will an MLB strike have political fallout?: The year is 1994; a baseball strike is followed by a popular president, riding an expanding economy, losing control of Congress thanks to an angry tide of pessimistic voters. Now, eight years later, will a baseball strike effect the fortunes of Dubya? Could the man in the White House make populist hay by taking on the players and the owners, even though he was once an owner himself? Discuss.

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