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...measure a rock group's popularity by the diversity of rumors it has spawned, then the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are the biggest band in the world. According to various reputable music magazines, singer Karen O hates German people; drummer Brian Chase rigged an MTV contest to win a Bon Jovi concert in his backyard; and the band's new record, Show Your Bones, is a concept album about O's cat. To set things straight, O, whose seldom-used last name is Orzolek, digs Germans; Chase has never won anything; and Coco Beware, while a real...
...record low for recent French Presidents - while Villepin's slipped to 29%, just a year away from presidential elections. Ironically, the only short-term winner from the crisis appears to be Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy - front-runner in the 2007 presidential race that Villepin is expected to contest too, with Chirac's likely backing. Sarkozy called for "compromise" with protesters - a position at odds with his plan for vast reforms cutting far deeper than the youth labor law. "We have a program, but we're pragmatic," says a Sarkozy adviser. "Plus, you need stability and calm to reform." Until...
...treat, too. Downer's hyper-funny side is in its prime, frequently teased out by his hyperactive Opposition counterpart, Kevin Rudd. Far from the kiss-kiss world of diplomacy, political beasts Downer and Rudd often rumble in their very own hyperbolic chamber. While the prevailing contest is about Australia's participation in Saddam Hussein's corruption of the humanitarian aid program to Iraq, it would be wrong to see Downer vs. Rudd as mere rhetorical overkill...
...report from the front lines of the warfare between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims in Iraq provoked some readers to contest the idea that the U.S. invasion sparked the fire, while others hoped for peace...
...many people live in each house. There is no mention of religion and ethnicity on the census forms and President Olusegun Obasanjo has urged Nigerians to treat the national tally as an act of citizenship rather than politics. "Census-taking is not politics and should therefore not be a contest for political supremacy," Obasanjo said in a national television and radio broadcast. "We need accurate data for a planned and progressive society, so as to be able to plan for the provision of housing, health, education and other social services...