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Well, the good news is big banks like Societe Generale have passed out free calculators. Even the Germans, who merely had to chop the old deutsche-mark prices in half, seem perplexed. Almost 50% of Germans polled thought a new Volkswagen Polo priced at 26,000 deutsche marks was expensive, but only one-third said the same of the car priced at the equivalent 13,000[Euro]. (If you must know, 1[Euro]=89[cents] American...
...displaying his mathematical prowess. "You just divide by 50% and add that to the original, then times by 10 ..." Well, the good news is that big banks like Société Générale have passed out free calculators.) Even the Germans, who merely had to chop the old deutsche mark prices in half, seem slightly perplexed. Almost 50% of Germans polled by Allensbach, an opinion researcher, thought a new Volkswagen Polo priced at 26,000 deutsche marks was expensive, but only one-third said the same thing about a VW priced at the equivalent...
...SYSTEM OF A DOWN Toxicity (Columbia) In a year filled with screaming nu-metal acts, this band screams loudest and most eloquently. Front man Serj Tankian has a soaring voice, but as he demonstrates on standouts Chop Suey! and Forest, he knows how to modulate, sounding like an angry cantor one moment and a choir boy the next. Guitarist Daron Malakian backs it all up with a fierce wall of fuzz...
...System of a Down Toxicity (Columbia) In a year filled with screaming nu-metal acts, this band screams loudest and most eloquently. Front man Serj Tankian has a soaring voice, but as he demonstrates on standouts Chop Suey! and Forest, he knows how to modulate, sounding like an angry cantor one moment and a choir boy the next. Guitarist Daron Malakian backs it all up with a fierce wall of fuzz...
...concrete floors and ate little but bread and water, although they were allowed to roam the yard for five hours a day and occasionally punch volleyballs over a net that still hangs there. There were no beatings, says a former inmate named Abdullah. "For punishment, they'd make us chop wood," he says. Today, documents are scattered across the clerk's floor and somehow Abdullah the thief has won a job as a guard. He isn't busy. Jalalabad has neither prisoners nor courts to sentence them. Commander Zaman explains that he offered someone a job as judge...