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...future of partying at the House of Funk. What were trying to figure out right now, he says, is how to throw a massive rager. Its complicated because the band is so large (11 members), were going to have to play in another room, and have dancing in the den, or pipe up the music from the basement or something. Were still negotiating...
...some convincing. The North American route, once a cash cow for many European airlines, has been the hardest hit in terms of cancellations. "Traffic on North American routes was down 25-30% initially, but we don?t know how much it will be affected going forward," said Nick van den Brul, airline analyst at BNP Paribas in London. The Association of European Airlines figures that Europe?s carriers lost $25 million a day in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. British Airways says it will scrap or suspend 190 flights, including 30 on the North Atlantic. The International...
...After one briefcase-sniffing dog, one X-ray machine, and a lot of ushering through corridors by the NYSE?s swamped but immaculately mannered press-handlers, we reached our quarantine in the exchange?s ad hoc press pen. A vaulted-ceilinged, red-carpeted, den-of-J.P. Morgan room with a long mahogany table and oil portraits of NYSE chairmen past on rococo-detailed walls. No view of the exchange floor. No windows...
Proudly, I called my wife into the den. What, she asked, did I intend to do about all the wires? True, five sets now ran from the thin DVD receiver to speakers flanking the TV, then cascaded across the floor to other speakers behind the couch and to the big subwoofer that sat like a hound in the center of the floor. I made a suggestion. "Drill holes in the bookcases?" repeated my wife. Then she said it again, emphasizing different words. Then she left the room, chuckling in a way that scared...
...rent Doris Days for your DVD," I explained. What your home-entertainment center wants is something that can show off its sound system: warbling aliens, metal being ripped asunder, explosions whose concussive booms start at your toes and rumble across the den and into the kitchen, where they look in the fridge for something...