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How does Houellebecq reconcile his paeans to random sex with his lament over the world it leaves in its wake?
Your News Quiz challenge is to find a more shameless line of self-stroking whose author was able to wake up after its publication, see it in print, and not kill himself with pills.
The Washington Post lead, coming in the wake of yesterday's USAT lead claiming that the government would be asking for Microsoft to be broken in two, says the government is actually asking for it to be broken into three.
In the wake of the huge success of Nirvana's Nevermind , which was released in September of 1991 and stayed on the charts for more than a year, major record labels went on a band-signing spree, adding to their rosters any act that seemed to offer even the faintest possibility of being the next Nirvana.
Nelson's urge to enter the public arena was partly the legacy of his father, whose Rockefeller Foundation helped create the modern science of philanthropy, though its underlying purpose was to expunge the malevolent connotations attached to the name of Rockefeller in the wake of the predations of the Standard Oil trust.