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...like Björk,'" Goldfrapp recalls, just a little caustically. "Now Björk isn't on everyone's radar as much as, say, Kylie is right now. It's just pretty random, whatever is around." Like any good diva, Goldfrapp exudes an air of being above all the fuss, even while clearly luxuriating in it. "I think I did 175 interviews in four weeks," says the weary songstress. And does she read them? Certainly not. "You spend all day f___ing talking about yourself - you don't want to then read about yourself as well." Maybe that's what...
...Indeed, financial markets greeted the change without a fuss. But much like the famous butterfly of chaos theory, which flaps its wings in Brazil and sets off a tornado in Texas, Beijing's decision portends momentous consequences for the global economy down the road. Scrapping the dollar peg is widely seen by economists as the first step toward a free-floating, and much stronger, yuan. If the yuan continues to appreciate, China's new currency policy could reorder global trade and investment, boost the power of Asian consumers, and address global trade imbalances. U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow...
PROMISE "Old Fuss and Feathers" was a national hero from the Mexican War of 1846. He devised the "Anaconda Plan" to blockade the South's ports...
...They expected a fuss, but they didn't think the issue was important enough for the size of the fuss we made," said Denver Psychologist Lenore Walker. She was one of seven feminist psychologists and psychiatrists who were invited to Manhattan last week, all expenses paid, to sit in on a closed meeting dealing with proposed revisions in psychiatry's diagnostic bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Third Edition). DSM-III is of crucial importance to the profession. Its diagnoses are generally recognized by the courts, hospitals and insurance companies...
Remember all the fuss over a 1981-82 survey professing to show that the news is being distorted by a liberal journalistic elite that is out of touch with the rest of America? Conservative pressure groups with lots of money to spend spread these charges far and wide. Recent cover stories in two professional magazines challenge the accuracy of the findings. But what is stranger is that the accusations no longer seem to matter so much, and the reason is Ronald Reagan...