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...strongest hint that George W. Bush might actually have changed his thinking about Europe came not during his big speech in Brussels last week - the centerpiece of his four-day, three-country European tour - but in a much more low-key forum. Seated at a table in Mainz with a group of young German professionals, Bush tried to put the transatlantic alliance into perspective. After 9/11, he said, the U.S. and Europe developed very different views about global security - and he conceded that occasionally caused leaders to mistake each other's meaning. "Sometimes we talk past each other," said...
...Jordan, Nike features soccer stars and other local athletes. Pepsi used to sell itself worldwide with the help of Michael Jackson and Madonna, but in current British commercials David Beckham is the star. "For most new U.S. brands in the past 10 to 15 years, it's remarkable how low-key they are about their country of origin. I can't remember a brand being launched that was proud to be American," says Simon Anholt, a British consultant and author of the recently published Brand America...
Strangely after 18 tracks of “Europa Neurotisch” and “Partymädchen Gefoltert,” the album ends on “Chelsea Girls,” a low-key and echo-filled song about the sad, out of luck ladies of Chelsea. What might just seem like an odd note to go out on is just another part of the Total humor: and it’s this unique spirit, love it or hate it, that defines Stereo Total, never so much as on Do The Bambi...
...Empty Street sold more than 400,000 European copies. The tour is discussed in an in-depth article on www.norway.org, “Norway: the official site in the United States.” The single “Misread” overtook European MTV last summer, with its low-key unplugged melancholy and crisp, autumnal video of the band relaxing and playing music in a park, and the album was filled with a similar mellow, familiar sound—the scuffling of fingers along guitar strings, richness of cello and violin, and gentle vocals. While the Paradise Rock Club...
...They have airbrushed Zhao's name from history and from real life." BAO TONG, aide to purged Chinese leader and reformist icon Zhao Ziyang, criticizing the official silence that greeted Zhao's death last week. The government eventually agreed to allow a low-key memorial service...