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...nightly basis. And, indeed, “God Gave Me Everything” finds rock’s senior Peter Pan slipping back into his leather jacket (check out his double-jointed pelvis in the video) and breaking out the power-chords, courtesy of the lightning-bolt guitar of the reassuringly retro-styled Kravitz. The lyrics are pure Stonesian Jagger, “God gave me everything I want/Can’t stop/I’ll give...
...then we had, as Barton Biggs of Morgan Stanley calls it, "a bolt from the blue." A strike right at the heart of world capitalism. And it was a pretty good shot: it leveled two of the biggest buildings in the U.S. and shut down the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ - the world's two biggest stock markets - for four days. The prices of oil, gold and bonds were sent soaring. The London FTSE, the Paris CAC and the German DAX all took double-digit losses in the first few days. By the end of September the news...
...starring Daniel Radcliffe as You-Know-Who—or rather, He-Whose-Name-I-Am-Sick-Of. I can just envision the hordes of would-be wizards, both young and old, stampeding theaters, wearing sorcerer’s hats and round glasses, even getting that oh-so-clever bolt of lightning tattooed on their foreheads: Think Pokemon and Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, only a hundred times worse...
...left the bookstore in the early hours of the morning, I pondered why I now had a pair of Harry Potter glasses in my purse and a lightning bolt on my arm (in defense of my sanity, I did not go so far as to put it on my forehead). I also walked out with a copy of the new, much-hyped fourth book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I had purchased the book partly because a cousin of mine was desperately counting on me to get it for her, but something else...
...American refugee program, which had been responsible for bringing about 80,000 people into the U.S., is barely alive; President Bush hasn't signed its annual authorization. Last week Bush announced further measures to bolt the nation's door, including the formation of a Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force to coordinate federal efforts to keep terrorists out and hunt them down if they slip in. Authorities will now check to see that those who enter the U.S. on student visas actually attend school. But there is an air of desperation to the proposals. "This was not an immigration failure...