Word: anthem
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...everyday life. If you're trying to succeed in school, if you're sick in the hospital or if you lose your identity card, goes the lyric, to get anything done in Kenya you have to pay a bribe. Kenyans have adopted the song as an anti-officialdom anthem, and they flock to appearances by its 28-year-old writer and singer, Eric Wainaina. "We like it because it's the truth," says Judy Elahuya, a housekeeper. "For everything you must bribe. That really makes you angry." It's a culture "that disempowers people and makes us pay for things...
...most fun I’ve had watching the Olympics is when I’ve let myself imagine what it would be like to hear the national anthem played in front of a stadium full of people. The athletes deserve our thanks, not only for carrying the remains of a tattered World Trade Center flag but also for bringing out the best of America, for example Vonetta Flowers becoming the first black woman to win a gold in the winter games...
Botterill and Shewchuk received their gold medals in succession to the tune of John Williams’ Call of the Champions. And when the Canadian national anthem was played, they both sang along...
...honestly believed that we could do it, even when we heard people saying we couldn’t,” Botterill told the Salt Lake Tribune. “When I heard the anthem, the tears got uncontrollable. I was sobbing...
Willis jerked from side to side and jumped up and down to his “Bad Boys” anthem as he navigated his way across the crackling bubble wrap that substituted for glass...