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...badgering violent interview subjects. And sometimes it means coming up with a flimsy excuse to get your editors to send you to the Sundance Film Festival. As lots of people in my office were doing the former, I did the latter. You've got to zig when they zag...
Habibie's reputation for loony ideas is at its worst when it comes to economics. He is widely ridiculed for his bizarre "zig-zag theory," based on the notion that cutting interest rates, then doubling them, then slashing them again will reduce inflation. His inexperience petrifies investors. "Even if you zero out the political risk, economically you still have a mess here," says Matthew Pecot, head of research with GK Goh Securities in Jakarta. "Give it two weeks or so, and I think the students will be back out there protesting against Habibie...
...double agent; in London. Serving time on the Channel Islands for his sticky fingers, Chapman was sprung by German occupiers who sent him to blow up an English factory. He faked the demolition with the aid of a master illusionist and returned to Germany a hero--code-named "Zig Zag" by his new friends, British intelligence...
...bulkiest parts of the structure at either end so as to interrupt the view as little as possible. Grumbach devised an open-air suspension bridge with a greenhouse at one end and a 500-ft. residential glass tower with hanging gardens at the other. Other proposals included a zig-zag span with a ribbon-like tower that twists 800 ft. into the sky and an organic tube in fluorescent pink and green that drew immediate comparisons to an alien spaceship. Nigel Coates, the only architect among the seven for whom Prince Charles has ever shown enthusiasm, designed what from river...
...literally--Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder's misunderstood-misanthrope act got tired about five seconds after Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain's suicidally depressive lyrics turned out to be all too genuine. Hootie was embraced as an alternative to alternative, a straight-ahead zig to the posturing zag of the rest of contemporary rock, and Cracked Rear View, with its brawny, melodic, heartfelt songs, went on to become the second best-selling debut of all time...