Word: africanizing
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...showing no signs of voluntarily giving up his seat. In fact, he has stressed that he is the victim and that the media is threatening to destroy his hard-earned reputation. On Monday, Burris made his resolve clear by visiting with his political base in the state's African-American community, which rallied behind him when senate leaders like Harry Reid were initially wary of accepting Blagojevich's appointment. "We put him in, and we're going to keep him in," Rev. Willie Barrow, a leader of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, the civil rights organization where the senator served as national...
...waters off Western Africa and the Caribbean, where baleen whales breed, Gerber and her colleagues mined marine data to create ecosystem models that plotted the feeding interactions between whales and fish. (They chose these waters in part because Japan is using the fishery argument to persuade Caribbean and African nations to support the lifting of the whaling...
...popular in the 50s and 60s. With music that fits into neither Western nor Malian categories, Traoré’s varied choice of instruments was fitting. Two guitars and a traditional drum set gave the music a more Western feel, while the n’goni, or African lute, and vocalist Naba Traoré added more traditionally African sounds. The well-traveled daughter of a diplomat, Traoré composes music that reflects her diverse influences. One of the most successful instances of this integration was her rendition of the Billie Holiday song...
...urgency over the past few years due to the rise of Islamic fundamentalism. Political Islam "has given women both the cause and the language to demand their rights and equality within an Islamic framework," notes Ziba Mir-Hosseini, an Iranian legal anthropologist at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. "The Koran gives women equality, but women's voices were silenced after the death of the Prophet. Law is always man-made, and women's voices were not there when the law was formed. They were reduced to sexual beings. Now, we are creating the space within...
Bush, George W. • investigation of in connection with wiretapping, politicizing of the Justice Department, and, of course, torture, is fervently desired by the two-thirds of the population less willing than Obama to let bygones be bygones • South African TV station erroneously runs moving banner headline reporting the death...