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...constitution. Propelling the decline was a report--quickly denied--in the German newsmagazine Stern that at a meeting in late May, Finance Minister Hans Eichel and Axel Weber, head of the German central bank, had discussed the prospect of dissolving Europe's monetary union. Weber dismissed the report as "absurd," and most market watchers and economists agreed. "The talk will continue for a week or two, then go away--the euro's here to stay," says William Davies, head of European equities for the London-based fund manager Threadneedle Investments...
Featured everywhere from Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor” to the May issue of Playboy, Corker characterizes the media interest, focused on painting Harvard social life as dead, as “absurd...
...seem tough,’ policy, and our feeling at 20, 21, 22 years old, and as a fairly liberal group of editorial writers, was that this was a ruse. It had nothing to do with keeping the country strong. It was absurd. If there was a war with the Soviet Union, it would have been nuclear war and we all would have been dead...
...strikes me as morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus." SIR BOB GELDOF, Live Aid founder, announcing details of Live 8, a staging of five free concerts to be held simultaneously around the globe on July 2 to raise awareness of poverty in Africa...
...entire postwar generation of kids, are being reprinted as a quarterly series of black-and-white collections (Vol. 4 arrives this month). The adventures of Lulu, Tubby, Alvin and the "fellers" seem as fresh and funny as they were 50 years ago. The gang gets big laughs from such absurd contrivances as Lulu's swapping her father's beloved mounted fish for a Civil War cannonball as a surprise gift. Stanley and Tripp keep Lulu as entertaining and revisitable as I Love Lucy...