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...Howard Stern is trying to kill American Idol by supporting votefortheworst.com an anti-A.I. site that ballot-stuffs for increasingly improbable contender (and "ponyhawk" aficionado) Sanjaya Malakar. The NEW YORK POST calls for calm: "Even if he survives ... he's no music star. But his hair--his hair will last forever." SCORE...
...Beijing branch office of the China Galaxy Securities brokerage house on Jan. 29 certainly weren't letting a small drop in the market that day dampen their spirits. "I guess the fluctuation will go on for a while, maybe for another month or so," says Jiang Yulan, a trading aficionado, "but in a long term, the price will be going up by the end of this year." So confident are the assembled san hu that they don't even consider trading to be serious business. Instead, they use wan, the Chinese word for "play," to describe their activity...
...stories at the Beijing branch of the China Galaxy Securities brokerage house on Jan. 29 weren't letting a small drop in the market that day dampen their spirits. "I guess the fluctuation will go on for a while, maybe another month or so," says Jiang Yulan, a trading aficionado, "but in a long term, the price will be going up by the end of this year...
...It’s a Mexican style lucha libre” he says, pleased to reveal himself a wrestling aficionado. “I wear it for, frankly, the in your face aspect….I like to back up what I say, like to have some heft behind it. It was confrontational. I’m proud of where I’m from…and,” he adds with a laugh, “I really like pro wrestling...
...symphony makes its debut can’t help but captivate an audience. Shot in a magnificently ornate theater, the scene features Harris ferociously shaping the enormous sound that is the Ninth. One can hardly see the difference between Harris and the music. It is here that the aficionado will not be disappointed. Both the music and the dialogue about it are true to the earth-shattering changes Beethoven’s Ninth brought to the world. The strengths of this film stop, though, with Harris’ performance and Beethoven’s masterpieces. Anna’s relationship...