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...weather rolled into New York City on Tuesday afternoon when two very talented designers shifted the fashion temperature from hot and sticky to calm and cool. Zac Posen ended his beautifully refined show with a quartet of "cloud" dresses - from nimbus to cumulus to cyclone - all in washed and dyed silk that was literally gathered and draped to look like a cloud bursting off a model's shoulder on top of a long gown or swirling around her torso in the case of a strapless shift. It was a touch of showbiz to top off a collection that was easily...
...inspired not fear, but affection. During his long trips abroad, friends wrote him letters professing that they were "seized by a marvelous desire" to see him, and reporting that his highly strung wife couldn't bear their separation: "Good Lord, there is no way to get her to calm down and take comfort...
...popular uprising, his followers staged months of counter-protests. Then he was put on trial and the underlying fear was that a heavy sentence for the former action-film star would provoke violent outcries. Today, however, though Estrada received a sentence of life imprisonment, his fans kept calm, taking some comfort, it seems, in the fact that the penalty doesn't mean life in a prison cell...
...current President, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who was first sworn in after Estrada was deposed in 2001, hopes this will be the end of the matter. Her spokesman Ignacio Bunye appealed for calm on the streets, as the authorities feared mass demonstrations in support of the deposed President. "We hope and pray that the rule of law will prevail," Bunye said. "Meantime, we have a country to run, an economy to grow and a peace to win. We hope that this sad episode in our history will not permanently distract us from this goal...
...expressed 1 1/2 decades earlier by the great English economist (and speculator) John Maynard Keynes: it was a "casino," a "whirlpool of speculation," a "game of Snap, of Old Maid, of Musical Chairs." Young Bogle argued that the growth of professionally managed funds would bring a new age of calm rationality to the market and thus "militate against Lord Keynes' dismal and socialistic conclusions...