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...feeling that Buttigieg is yearning for reasons—any reason at all—to make us believe that Democrats are good and Republicans are bad. In a very absurd argument, Buttigieg says that since sex is self-evidently good, the fuss over Democrats such as Clinton is overblown. Republicans are bad because they participate in violence. And violence is bad. Why (according to Buttigieg)? Because “we can all agree.” Of course, this answer depends on a false assumption of a broad consensus...
...everyone is won over. Greenpeace, which kicked up a big fuss over the Erika spill, is frustrated because Total continues to use a leaky pipeline in Siberia and wants the company to show a greater commitment to developing renewable-energy sources such as wind and solar power. "The level of dialogue with BP or Shell is totally different," says Bruno Rebell, Greenpeace's head of international programs. At Henderson Global Investors, which manages about $127 billion in assets, fund managers also think Total needs to do more. A September 2001 accident at a Total fertilizer plant in Toulouse that killed...
...were invented more for business than artistic reasons in the first place), it frees them to sample more genres and artists. The trade-off is a flightier, more mercurial and more tabloid pop culture. Its one unifying trait, perhaps, is simply the desire to check out what all the fuss is about. But at least we're still connected enough to care about one another's fusses now and again...
...feel it in his every movement. As for Blanchett, she's simply wonderful. She has played her share of queenly figures, but her acting essence is, emotionally speaking, plain-Jane. She's a straight shooter, with an uncanny ability to find a character's spine and communicate it without fuss or feathers...
...surround sound. Our top choice this season is the Panasonic SC-HT1000 ($999, left), which both plays and records DVDs. Another favorite is the Samsung HT-DB660 ($799, right), with front speakers that reflect sound off your back wall for the effect of full-range surround sound without the fuss of wiring up rear speakers...