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BRITAIN Firemen Strike, Brits Shrug If the compositions of Bach and Mozart send some listeners into raptures, they also send some folks packing. Danish railway authorities used high-volume broadcasts of Bach's organ music and Mozart's doom-laden opera Don Giovanni to clear Copenhagen's main station of drunks and junkies. If things get really bad, they can always play The Ketchup Song.There was no al-Qaeda dirty bomb, no chemical plant disaster, no towering inferno. None of the worst-case scenarios imagined by tabloid journalists and military planners ahead of the U.K.'s first fire-services strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 11/17/2002 | See Source »

Asked after the game Friday if he was concerned as the team opened the season without a goal in its first 87 minutes, Moore made a slight shrug and quickly dismissed the idea...

Author: By Timothy Jackson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Action Jackson: Harvard Institutes Moore Curriculum | 11/12/2002 | See Source »

Suddenly, the girl’s eyes grow wide and she slams the brakes. Her smile implodes. Her momentum carries her right past me, and as we pass each other, she mumbles an awkward “Hi.” I shrug. Odd girl, I think to myself. And then, frowning, it occurs to me that over the past two months I’ve run into more odd people than I had in the previous two years, back when?...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Have You Seen This Man? (Are You Sure?) | 11/7/2002 | See Source »

...Because it's pure," says Jerry Seinfeld, who reacts as though he doesn't quite understand the question. And, he adds, because "it's hard." And, ultimately, he says with an amiable shrug, "because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Very Jerry Seinfeld | 11/4/2002 | See Source »

...statement that he might disgorge Diana's secrets in his own defense: "I wish to emphasize I did not wish to break confidentiality. I now may have to do so." Would anyone much care? Robert Lacey, author of biographies of Diana and the Queen, thinks that "people now just shrug their shoulders to more revelations; it just shows she was human, and her vulnerability and flakiness were part of her appeal." So despite the media hurricane at the trial, Diana's candle is likely to keep flickering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Royal Souvenirs | 10/20/2002 | See Source »

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