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Next they'll be having an "everything must go" sale at Fort Knox. The latest gold rush has tens of thousands of miners in South Africa, Russia and other gold-producing countries facing unemployment ?- because there's a rush to sell. The Bank of England offloaded 25 tons on Tuesday, dragging the price of gold down to a 20-year low. And there's worse to come, as the International Monetary Fund proceeds with plans to sell $2.6 billion of its own gold reserves to raise money for debt relief to poor countries...
...RUDY GIULIANI'S city and he'll cancel a party if he wants to--particularly if it crimps the campaign of a potential political rival. The party in question was to celebrate the launch of Talk, former New Yorker editor Tina Brown's latest magazine. Brown and Harvey Weinstein, a hefty Democratic supporter whose Miramax Films part-owns the publication, had applied to hold their August revel at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which is owned by New York City. But Giuliani balked when rumors, still unsubstantiated, swirled that the magazine's first cover girl would be HILLARY CLINTON...
Hemingway purists have also bristled at the commercialism that has swelled during Papa's centennial year. Credit--or blame--for much of this activity goes to the author's three sons, who some years ago signed with a licensing agent to control the use of the Hemingway name. The latest venture to win the sons' approval is the Ernest Hemingway Collection from the Thomasville furniture company. Among the offerings: the Pamplona Sofa and the Kilimanjaro...
...people of the 20th century will culminate in December, when we will name a single figure as the Person of the Century. To help the magazine's editors make the choice, we are asking a select group of people to tell us whom they would pick. Here are the latest thought-provoking nominations...
...rising Florida act is that it too often comes off as an attitude in search of a band. Like nose rings or baggy jeans, attitude is just one more pop prop, and the muddy roar of Bizkit's angry, shapeless songs does nothing to prove otherwise. The group's latest album, though, trades some of the hard-core posing for song structure and, yes, melody--without getting too wimpy. Even the hardiest moshers occasionally need something to thrash to. Bizkit is still a long way from the brutal majesty of Korn or Rage Against the Machine, but at least...