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...begun to slow up traffic, and police close in on them like parentheses. Is a confrontation brewing? One young reveler reaches into his car and turns up his stereo. The voice of Elephant Man, the latest local ragga star, blares out, heavy with attitude and thick with patois: "Badman nah run from police inna shootout/Whole crew a government see dem pon di lookout..." The youth smiles at the cops and keeps dancing...
...long rates to be chopped now, something would have to shoot holes in the perception that the economy has hit bottom. More bad news from manufacturers? Nah, that sector is already comatose. But if housing suddenly stumbles, the bond market might rethink all this nascent-recovery stuff and finally give us the lower long-term rates that could make a difference...
...doubt that Michel and his brood deserve a somewhat better life. We can't help admiring the high, dry wit with which their (fairy) tale is recounted. We briefly wonder if Michel, as well as Harry, should pay some sort of price for his good fortune. But, nah--that would interfere with the knife-edged perversity of the piece, the sense we derive from it of fate's inexplicable workings, presented neither doomily nor ironically, but as a supercool form of realism...
...asked Rusty, 29 and from Montana, if he knew where the next "Survivor" series was to be held. He'd heard rumors of Africa or a South American rain forest. Was he worried about existing in a tropical jungle? "Nah. I survive L.A. And that's a real jungle." I wondered if he was your standard unemployed actor, but discovered that he just looked like one. He was a salesman for a trucking company. Apparently life is equally tough for those in L.A. who are not actors...
...Nah," Max Martin says, gazing out across the Stockholm cityscape. "I don't think I'll ever move away." And why should he? The Swedish capital may be a far cry - and a long plane ride - from the hyperactive nerve centers of pop music in New York and Los Angeles, but industry execs and artists - even Britney Spears! - make the trek anyway, to Martin's studio on the south side of town, to the Hit Man himself. Never heard of Martin? Chances are you've hummed, listened to, danced to or at least disparaged his tunes. "Max is the melody...