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Reggae was once associated with politically conscious lyrics, Rastafarians and the palm-fringed shores of its native Jamaica. But forget Bob Marley and Peter Tosh singing about peace and love; these days some of reggae's biggest acts are just as likely to be advocating the killing of homosexuals in their music...
...butt of jokes for its bland elevator music, but it now supplies some 400,000 shops, restaurants and hotels around the world--including Gap, McDonald's and Burger King--with songs tailored to reflect their identity. "What we're trying to capture is a brand's essence," says Bob Finigan, Muzak's vice president of product and marketing. "We express the intangibles of a brand's identity--their company values, their position in the market--through the emotional power of music...
...Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, warts and all [July 23]. Both are in their seventh decade, yet their approach to politics is progressive and refreshing. No conservative clichés and smoke-screen social issues; just good old-fashioned compromise and common sense. Isn't that what governing is all about? Bob August, REPUBLICANS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, NASHVILLE...
...Testament. His biography is accepted as fact by pious Jews and Christians, as are the book's details regarding the sack of Jerusalem, in which Nebo-Sarsekim reportedly participated, and the subsequent Jewish exile "by the rivers of Babylon," commemorated by the Book of Psalms and Bob Marley. Minimalists tend to regard it as a polemic, until proven otherwise...
...Perhaps Bob Dylan was right—in the 1960s, at the height of American radicalism, it probably didn’t take a weatherman to see where the country was headed. It’s unfortunate that today, it takes an Argentine to see where we Americans came from. Paul R. Katz ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, is a history and literature concentrator in Mather House. He just wants the truth...