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...sharp decline in stock value comes during a time of turmoil for the nation’s airline industry, which faces profit losses of up to $1 billion, widespread consumer fear, major staff cuts, and a threat of imminent bankruptcy if a federal aid package is not soon passed by congress...
...time being, these actions make sense, not only in the name of good taste, but as a way to partially alleviate the emotional, psychological and spiritual turmoil being experienced by so many Americans. ABC executives made the correct decision in cancelling last Saturday’s scheduled airing of The Peacemaker, the 1998 film which depicts George Clooney and Nicole Kidman working to prevent a nuclear attack on New York City’s United Nations building. Likewise, Sony Pictures acted wisely in pulling previews of its upcoming Spiderman. The cartoonish preview concludes with the superhero snaring an enemy helicopter...
...government of the nuclear-armed Muslim nation is under tremendous domestic political pressure from its own sizable Islamist constituency to rescind its somewhat reluctant decision to support the U.S. campaign, and there are real concerns over whether General Parvez Musharraf's military government would ultimately survive the domestic political turmoil a full-blown war would almost certainly unleash...
...Brigadier-General Jaki Uly, the former militiamen still have guns. Some parade and drill with Indonesian civil defense units. "Refugees tell us of militia concentrations and training," says the U.N.'s Colonel Rob Holt. Mario Vieira, spokesman for the pro-integration political group Uni Timor Aswain (UNTAS), threatens economic turmoil for the new nation. "We will never give up," he says. Former commander-in-chief Jo?so Tavares believes the recent election has been a setback for peace. "Soon you will probably hear the conflict is going on again," he says. "There will never be an end. The new East Timor...
Kurt Cobain and Nirvana were to the Olympia indie-cum-grunge scene what Malcolm McLaren and the Sex Pistols were to punk rock—what began as an esoteric musical offshoot of political turmoil (in the case of punk, economic and social turmoil in late-1970’s Britain; in the case of indie, rebellion against traditional gender roles in music and disdain towards the mass marketing of an art form) was deliberately sold as bandwagon rebellion. As Bart Simpson said while the Smashing Pumpkins played in front of him at Lollapalooza, “making teenagers depressed...