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...Since you stated that candidate Ron Paul's advocates are probably the most zealous, I was shocked that he was absent from the poll results sprinkled throughout the article. As a tuned-in 60-year-old, I am aware of the Internet buzz about his candidacy. You focused on the popularity contest rather than on interesting if not mainstream ideas - something this country needs more of. John Kelsh, Seattle...
...buzz words these days are "commitment," "intimacy" and "working at relationships." There is much talk of pendulum swings, matters coming full circle and a psychic return to prerevolutionary days. "We are in a '50s period again," says Miami Psychiatrist Gail Wainger. "People are looking for more lasting relationships, and they want babies." In the '70s Wainger's case load was predictably heavy with patients complaining about sexual inadequacies. "Not having an orgasm was an O.K. reason to come in for therapy. Now they come in because they are not happy with their lives, their jobs, their inability to find relationships...
...sold over four million copies domestically and also represented her last collaboration with producer Bill Botrell. But at the very least, Crow will probably accomplish two important goals: satisfying her legions of fans with the traditional stuff, and maybe even drawing a sizable contingent of new buyers with the buzz created by her new, politically informed edge. —Reviewer Christian B. Flow can be reached at cflow@fas.harvard.edu...
...Which perhaps explains why, in spite of the team's surprising start, there's very little buzz at the Hornets' hive. The team is averaging a dismal 12,645 fans per game, the second worst attendance figure in the NBA (only the Indiana Pacers have drawn fewer fans). A cable dispute between Cox Communications, which has exclusive rights to broadcast Hornets games, and Charter Communications, the cable provider for about 225,000 residents in suburban St. Tammany Parish, left many affluent fans unable to watch their team. To add to the Hornets' hard luck, the cash-strapped team...
...Could this buzz attack of bad news send Sarkozy scrambling, as Chirac often did, for the safe bunker of the status quo? Not unless he gets spooked into making a serious strategic mistake. Because despite souring public opinion and the risk of gains for the left at the polls, one thing hasn't changed since Sarkozy's convincing election victory only nine months ago: the wide consensus among voters that France needs the root-and-branch reform Sarkozy was elected to enact. Candidate Sarkozy promised harder work, more pay, fewer civil servants and a pared-down welfare state. He said...