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...helped America avoid the full consequences of its reckless spending. The U.S. current account deficit touched $542 billion last year and the fiscal deficit, which has burgeoned because of tax cuts and the war in Iraq, is projected to hit $521 billion this year. Huge deficits usually make investors nervous and drive up interest rates, but Asia's bond purchases have allowed Greenspan to keep interest rates low, making life easier for millions of U.S. home buyers and credit-card owners?not to mention President Bush, as he scrambles for money to rebuild Iraq...
...organizes and executes one such blowout. En route to the airport, Bennett struggles to remember where he's going--Memphis, Tenn.--while an assistant preps him on the local vernacular. ("Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural.") Once on the scene, though, the Slasher--a wiry, nervous guy, like Billy Bob Thornton with Tom Waits' rasp--thrums like a racing engine. "This is a show to me," he says, "not a sale." He struts around the lot wielding a toy chainsaw. There are pretty showgirls, a DJ and the "$88 car." (Find that unmarked beater, discounted from...
...private lives of Siegfried & Roy's feline co-stars. "I opened the newspaper and it said Roy was bitten by a tiger," says Francis Kao, founder of the company. Then calls started coming in from DreamWorks SKG, the Hollywood studio that dreamt up the idea. "I started to get nervous," Kao recalls...
...Bausch is still every inch the ballerina. Her long, slim fingers are rarely without a cigarette or cup of black coffee. Even after hundreds of sold out performances in the world's most prestigious venues, she is unable to eat or drink before a show. "I am always so nervous," she says, smiling. Her perfectionism is notorious programming just one light cue can take an entire evening. A Bausch show is like food for your subconscious. There is no plot. Instead she takes a series of everyday events and skews them until they become dreamlike, familiar yet uncanny...
...further escalation, al-Qaeda claimed Saturday to have taken an American, Apache-helicopter specialist Paul M. Johnson, hostage. Riyadh now resembles a fortress, with government buildings, hotels and expat compounds protected by heavily armed Saudi forces and concrete barricades. Travellers endure long queues at police checkpoints. "I get nervous when I see a group of Western-looking foreigners," says Khalid Yousef, a 22-year-old university student in Jidda. "You don't want to get caught in the cross-fire." Nowhere is anxiety running higher than in the fortified palaces that house the country's royal rulers. Though...