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...talk: 'Oh my God. Have you seen that video where those girls snog? You've got to see it!' Record companies need to create that kind of buzz to get their video played and the song on people's minds." Despite the apparent manipulation, Tatu seem unconcerned by the fuss. They have an air of rebelliousness and teen angst about their relationship that their contemporaries can relate to. Says Lena, "Tatu is more sincere, more honest about ourselves and others. In Russia, life is not polite. If we don't like something, we say we don't like...
U.A.E. The United Arab Emirates is concerned that instability in the gulf could slow its rapid economic development. But if war comes, the U.A.E., which already extends military-basing privileges to the U.S. and Britain, is not likely to make a fuss...
...Then there was Reagan's attempt, once he reached the White House in 1981, to reverse a long-standing policy of denying tax-exempt status to private schools that practice racial discrimination and grant an exemption to Bob Jones University. Lott's conservative critics, quite rightly, made a big fuss about his filing of a brief arguing that BJU should get the exemption despite its racist ban on interracial dating. But true to their pattern of white-washing Reagan's record on race, not one of Lott's conservative critics said a mumblin' word about the Gipper's deep personal...
...funny thing," says Simon Tolkien, grandson of J.R.R. and author of the forthcoming novel Final Witness, "was that he was most famous on your side of the Atlantic. I think the English establishment was slightly suspicious of him." In fact, Tolkien found all the fuss distasteful. "Many young Americans are involved in the stories in a way that I'm not," he once remarked about his fans--or as he called them, "my deplorable cultus." He wondered what Americans saw in his long, deeply Anglophilic and, let's be frank, overwritten epic. But the Rings had struck a chord...
...lamp with a candle, but the wicks were soaked in too much oil and he stood awkwardly as they refused to catch fire. Then, the speaker system failed during the broadcast of a mobile phone call he made to the state's Chief Minister. Instead of making a fuss, Mittal told his Bombay manager: "Things happen." Asked about the incident months later, he explained simply that "I concentrate on things that have a large impact...