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February 17, 2005 by Tim Riley

Eat your heart out, Bill Flanagan.


ALWAYS GOOD FOR A QUOTE: George Michael, in today’s NYTimes:

George Michael says pop music is dead. Speaking yesterday at the Berlin International Film Festival, where he presented his autobiographical film “George Michael: A Different Story,” he said, “I think my own genre is dead,” The Associated Press reported. Mr. Michael, 41, said he wanted to “try to move my career into a different form. I don’t know what that’s going to be yet.”



Too bad Georgie had to compete with today’s Greenspan quote:

The Fed chief acknowledged, to a question from New York Sen. Charles Schumer, a Democratic foe of carving private accounts from Social Security, that the accounts wouldn’t address Social Security’s long-term financial woes. “In and of itself,” he said, “it surely doesn’t alleviate the current problem.” That would require tax increases and benefit reductions, he said, though he didn’t endorse any particular proposals… (from WSJ).

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