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...fueled fear in markets across Asia the following day, and suddenly investors were seized by visions of a rerun of 1997's "Asian contagion," when a financial crisis in Thailand triggered stock crashes from Jakarta to Moscow to New York. On Feb. 28, as this new outbreak of investor gloom spread, India's main stock index tumbled 4%, Singapore's dropped 3.7%, Japan's fell 2.9%, South Korea's lost 2.6%, and Hong Kong's slipped...
...melancholy, there are a few surprises. “Three Changes,” like every other song on the album, is a mess, but a calculated mess—a Sgt. Pepper’s-esque track that strays the farthest from the album’s gloom. Apart from Albarn and Danger Mouse, bassist Paul Simonon (of the Clash) contributes the most to the album’s feel. From the hopelessness of “Behind the Sun” to the electro-folk longing of “The Bunting Song,” his secure...
...Broadway Bound. Eugene and Stanley are shown when life is just beginning. I can't get back to that place. I would never think of giving up my career, but it's just not the same as when I began to achieve what I wanted." He concedes that his "gloom" has been triggered in part by health problems (emergency prostate surgery in November, a pending adrenal operation sometime during the next few weeks). He talks of taking a protracted sabbatical, although friends note that his temperament is mercurial and predict that such impulses will pass. His most reliable comforts...
...bikes and roar along deserted tracks to a semi-derelict logging shack. Waiting there are five N.P.A. soldiers with M-16s, who guide us through the darkening jungle to a camp lit by flickering oil lamps. "The comrades are very excited you're here," says a voice from the gloom...
...rubble of Lebanon, the foiled plot to blow airliners out of the sky over the Atlantic, the slow throttling of civil liberties and freedom of expression in Russia, genocide in Darfur, continuing repression from Burma to Zimbabwe. All seemed grim, and grimly familiar. Was there nothing to lighten the gloom...