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...with Thomas Mapfumo and you will see, hear, feel how music can be a liberating force. The whoops and cheers for the man they call the Lion of Zimbabwe have broken the quiet of a balmy January night in Mutare, a normally sleepy spread of jacaranda-shaded streets tucked amid the granite outcrops of the country's lush Eastern Highlands. In Queen's Hall, the revelers dance across a floor sticky with spilled lager, lost in the thump of the drums, the brassy blare of the horns and the hypnotic spell of the lyrics. Listen. What you hear...
...these days, Barman is less likely to let rhyme dictate content. Amid the rapid-fire wordplay and locker-room humor on Paullelujah!, he speaks extensively of political issues, a topic he currently calls his “highest interest...
...Located amid a bevy of restaurants at the intersection of Clarendon and Tremont streets in Boston’s South End, Metropolis sets itself apart from its pretentious cohorts with a much more laid back atmosphere. There are none of the consciously funky walls or day-glo furniture that mar many of the very hip (and actually pretty good) restaurants in the neighborhood, and the menu features classic dishes—like veal scaloppini—made special with the addition of a little something extra...
...Amid vociferous attempts to adjourn early to watch the finale of “Joe Millionaire,” the Undergraduate Council came out against a law that would deny federal funding to students convicted of drug-related offenses...
...finalists, the firm of Daniel Libeskind and the THINK team, led by Frederic Schwartz, Rafael Viñoly, Ken Smith and Shigeru Ban, were chosen, amid calls for a novel structure that would be a rejoinder, a memorial, a monument—a symbol and functional buildings and planning strategy. It is far from clear whether either of these proposals will ever be realized; what is apparent is that any plan must reckon with complex, and sometimes contradictory, public feelings about appropriate future uses of the site...