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...Instead, the big concerted action of Oct. 8 passed with barely a shrug from Wall Street. Stock markets worldwide continued to roil, and banks everywhere remained in the firing line. "Confidence has completely crashed, and it will take a while to rebuild it," says Craig Wright, chief economist at the Royal Bank of Canada, who is nonetheless hopeful that these and other measures will eventually start to work. "But it's hard to hear positives in a thunderstorm of gloom...
...Bing included, there is a wealth of wonderful art emerging from China—especially Beijing. Unfortunately for some of the artists who decide to shrug off the demands of the international market in favor of more directional work, their art often meets the criticism from the government, often resulting in professional dismissal and bans on public displays of art. Nonetheless, Chinese artists today, due in great part to the art boom in their nation, are presented with incredible prospects. While the prices of art made by Chinese may fall, foreign interest in the Chinese art scene is unlikely...
What Hollywood and the press who cover it once would have treated as an unmissable cinematic moment - a pairing of two of the greatest actors of their generation - is instead being greeted around town with a shrug. "It's like Ali and Frazier are about to fight," says Paul Dergarabedian, president of the box office tracking firm Media By Numbers. "And people are weirdly indifferent...
...course, Phelps won't admit to it. But if you're as gifted as he is in the water, and you shrug off world records as easily as a coat, no mere clocks will keep you feeling challenged - you need something to motivate you. Setting eight new marks in a single meet might do it - Phelps has already broken five world records in a meet at last year's World championships. What's three more? Next up are the 200m butterfly, in which he owns eight of the top 10 performances ever, and the 4x200m freestyle relay, in which...
...Denmark, there were howls of protest that women got to use the site gratis - and it was women who were doing the howling. "They said, 'What exactly are you getting at, making it free for women!' " says Simoncini with an I-don't-get-it shrug. "We said, Excuse us - we'll bill you." Since last year, women pay everywhere...