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...Mary Jo Bane, Bradshaw professor of public policy, said people should still value personal interactions highly...
Uncertainty is the bane of Wall Street, and in America you don't get any more uncertain than an Election Day that was everything but. The markets can't start dreaming of gridlock in Washington until they actually get a president-elect, so the Commotion by the Ocean down in Florida has laid a bit of a bad trip on traders and investors used to watching politics out of the corner of their eyes...
Luckily for the Corrs and their producers, identity, the bane of large-scale success, has been surgically removed from the Corrs in time for their third album, In Blue. Already, the Corrs have begun to construct an international cult of fantastically loyal adolescent males and pre-adolescent girls, who will no doubt flood from such competitors as Britney Spears to send them up the charts. The promo literature on the Corrs still makes much of the Celtic streak in their tunes, but that has been steamrolled over by a synthetic, processed sound. And, believe me, this is pop with...
...Then there's the culprits. Intel blamed sagging European demand - this to go with news that the European Central Bank is intervening on behalf of the euro, a real sign of desperation in E.U.-land - and the bane of both continents, rising oil prices...
...feet and destroying the old Olympic record with his time of 3:40.59. The center exploded in joy - I'm not sure, but I think the roof actually did come off the building. But in typical Australian understated style, Thorpe smiled modestly and barely waved. Thorpe is the bane of a sport photographer's existence: They beg him smile or yell, or to raise his entire arm, maybe even two, out of the water when he wins...