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JERUSALEM: Israel may have threatened to walk out on Wednesday, but back home in the Mideast the peace talks are a big yawn. "Regardless of the hype coming from the White House, there's no great sense of expectation on either side here," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "Whether or not the talks reach agreement, nobody here is going to see that as a big deal...
...album opens with "Angelene," the dry testimony of a world-wise hooker who longs for a lover "two thousand miles away," a yawn of separation that "lays open like a road." The figures in Harvey's tales rarely have access to the lovers they want, but Is This Desire? lends the trope a new layer of richness. Surely we should not ignore that Angelene both scans and rhymes with Polly Jean, and that an album whose title is a question must necessarily begin as a quest. After all, it is not the lover (who may, in fact, be imaginary...
Despite these advances, consumers initially greeted APS with a yawn, until Canon introduced a petite model aptly named Elph. It's the only hit yet in the parade of APS cameras. Canon discovered that many Elph buyers didn't even know, or care, that their new camera was an APS model, which is about as smooth a technology transfer as you can hope for. Elph just looks real cool, and it fits into a shirt pocket. "The design had much more impact than APS," admits Ted Ando, general manager of Canon U.S.A. Inc.'s camera division. Cameramakers have...
Inflation has been all but wiped off the worry screen of most Americans. But not of politicians and government statistics moles, who last week adjusted the Consumer Price Index downward for the fourth consecutive year. Stifle that yawn. The CPI, the nation's principal gauge of inflation, is not just a measure of the price of a quart of milk or a gallon of gas. It is easily the most important weapon in the government's considerable measurements arsenal. It forms the basis for annual benefits adjustments to some 80 million voters, from union workers and Social Security recipients...
...Last Word When late-night TV wasn't turning against Kenneth Starr and his investigation yesterday, it was giving a little yawn at the whole scandal spectacle...