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...Hill grew up in South Orange, N.J.; her father was a management consultant, her mother a grade-school English teacher. From an early age, Lauryn (she has an elder brother Malaney) was into singing and performing. When she was in middle school, she was invited to sing the national anthem at a high school basketball game. "People went wild," says LuElle Walker-Peniston, Hill's guidance counselor at Columbia High School. "I don't think we had a winning team, but she was inspiring." Fans liked her rendition so much that recordings of it were played at subsequent games...
...kick your a__ in." Make a statement like that, and you've got to back it up with material better than the music of the acts you've criticized. Well, while this album isn't a creative breakthrough, it does have charm and verve. A number of songs are anthem-like and uplifting, and when Alexander howls the choruses, he seems convinced that what he's doing is powerful and revelatory, and now and again, for a sweet flash, he makes the listener believe it too. One other thing: he is a better performer than Marilyn Manson...
From the soothing chants of the South African national anthem to the thousands of articles on black leaders, thinkers, artists and athletes, Encarta Africana explores the richness and diversity of the peoples who originated in Africa. Its spirited and colorful approach draws you in, and back, like an addiction. Sit down for a quick get-acquainted session and you'll find yourself clicking for hours among articles, videos, maps, songs and lectures...
...side pockets of joy. All those evangelists and rabbis who were consulted during the picture's gestation must have weighed like a rock on the filmmakers' impulse to soar. Artistic care gives way to religious caution, and the picture sometimes looks starched, stodgy. Except for the When You Believe anthem, Stephen Schwartz's tunes mostly bring not buoyancy but ballast to the proceedings. While Jeff Goldblum is good as a fretful Aaron, the rest of an exemplary vocal cast (Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock, Patrick Stewart) can't add much shading or power. Steve Martin is here for muted comic relief...
...ridden maker of scales, time clocks and accounting machines that his father took charge of in 1914--the year Tom Jr. was born. The elder Watson created a fanatically loyal work force at IBM--the company's name since 1924--hanging THINK signs everywhere, leading employee sing-alongs (corporate anthem: Hail to IBM) and dictating everything from office attire (white shirt, dark suit) to policies on smoking and drinking (forbidden on the job and strongly discouraged off it). IBM dominated the market for punch-card tabulators--forerunners of computers that performed such tasks as running payrolls and collating census data...