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...having a dreamy summer--full of lazy days spent deciphering cloud formations, performing circus tricks on her bicycle and waltzing to her grandmother's house each afternoon for games of killer badminton, followed by intense spoiling sessions. (Sample dialogue: "More ice cream, dear?" "Don't mind if I do!") Then, last week, tragedy struck: I told her to mulch the flower bed. My daughter is sweet and helpful, as long as the chore is a) interesting, b) fun or c) profitable...
...Nasser, who was initially wary of getting caught up in an election-year circus, has decided to attend congressional hearings set for this week. He has promised to release all company documents showing what Ford knew and when it knew it; his counterpart at Bridgestone/Firestone, CEO Masatoshi Ono, will also be there. Both are sure to incur the wrath of politicians fed up with what they view as stonewalling. "This whole thing stinks," said Representative Billy Tauzin, the Louisiana Republican who is chairman of the House Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection. "You can't tell me someone at Firestone...
Having entertained myself with this little circus, I began to get angry. Then I felt a sense of weirdness and unease moving in. This, as I e-mailed to the young women, is a very strange thing for a man to do - to steal, or anyway to borrow for the evening, without permission, another man's identity. The young women and I exchanged a dozen e-mails. They are lively and intelligent; both work in media jobs in New York...
Theater in Las Vegas, of course, has been a lot more than Buddy Hackett for some time now. Cirque du Soleil--with two shows, O and Mystere, drawing sellout crowds--has introduced a whole new audience to its lyrical mix of circus and performance art. Notre Dame de Paris, imported earlier this year to the new Paris (the Vegas hotel) from the old Paris (the French city) is an ambitious Les Miz-style opera that retells--drearily--the famed Hunchback tale. Even the town's hottest headliner, musical impressionist Danny Gans, devotes less time to the usual Vegas icons (Sinatra...
...Deftones has been through this buzz circus before. White Pony is its third album. The last two sold well, but not spectacularly. "We've pretty much stopped listening to everyone's predictions," says lead singer Chino Moreno. "We know where we're headed. Longevity is our only goal...