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...letter dispatched to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan appeared to fulfill U.S. demands that Iraq let unfettered inspections resume immediately. But it came with a two-page annex listing nine items Iraq wanted in return, which Saddam dubbed "positions" but the U.S. called unacceptable "conditions." The approval--and global sigh of relief--that initially greeted Saddam's backdown soured into fresh anxiety. Annan, who had welcomed the missive as a "positive step" that "in my opinion" met U.N. demands, was forced to call for "clarifications...
...brains are splattered Pollock-like across a wall. Or a blue steel blade flashes in the night, and someone is left crumpled on the carpet, surrounded by a spreading crimson stain. Or an asteroid strikes Earth, and hundreds of colorful New Yorkers are crushed by the Chrysler Building. Sigh. We should all die so crisply and photogenically...
...other firms: slashing costs. But Sunbeam's share price collapsed when he tried to push the business's growth. Two weeks ago, when CBS tapped Mel Karmazin to be CEO, replacing Michael H. Jordan, CBS stock jumped. But it wasn't so much a bet on Karmazin as a sigh of relief that Jordan was leaving. Under Jordan, CBS has run last among the big networks. But can Karmazin, a shrewd TV and radio-station operator, fix the Tiffany Network's programming? Not exactly his forte...
Maybe it was her wildly original lyrics, or thelittle "uh" sigh that punctuated each line ofmusic, or the fact that she never quite gave us anexample of true irony. Maybe it was all of thesethings and more--but one thing was clear. Thefollow-up to Alanis' debut would be the mosthyped, expected (read: feel the pressure) album inrecent memory...
...though you wouldn't guess that from his two new movies. He plays the frail, 67-year-old movie director James Whale in Gods and Monsters, and a Nazi near 80 in Apt Pupil. "People must think I'm in my 70s," he says with a sigh. "My danger is being typecast older than I am." But that, ladies and gentlemen, is Acting. Sir Ian is a lithe 59, two years junior to Redford, Nicholson, Hoffman. He doesn't care to be cast forever as grandpa or the grand codger--a premature Gielgud...