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Mohammed Rashud Ashraf is trapped deep inside enemy territory, and he's about to blow his cover. A mob of flag-waving Sri Lankans, dancing to the hypnotic beat of bongo drums, has surrounded him. Undaunted, Rashud rises from his seat, his country's colors proudly displayed on his T-shirt, and stands defiant. "Pakistan is the greatest," he screams...
...conceiving sequin headdresses for Cher LENNOX LEWIS Champ wins $8 million lawsuit against his promoter. At issue: promoter's deal to have Lennox drink Yuban coffee between rounds Losers JACQUES CHIRAC Le Monde runs photo of French prez with sleazeball scandal-magnet. Chirac is getting off easy. Those naked, bongo pics? Still hidden JULIAN AND STEPHEN MARLEY Sons of the deceased reggae legend Bob Marley busted for smoking weed. Other charges: sitting on sofas, giggling, really getting into Memento ROBERT MUGABE President of Zimbabwe kicks out E.U. election-observers in the run up to his re-election bid. Well, that...
...eclectic Dispatch sound—with its reggae rhythms, rap-style verses, grunge electric guitar solos and bongo drum jams—evolved out of the more acoustically driven One Fell Swoop sound. Talking about their early days, Chad commented that, “We were all pretty affected by grunge and we had that electric sort of Pearl Jam, Soundgarden sound in the back of our minds. It was just a matter of producing that sound. In the beginning
...bacteria responsible for anthrax, for one, nestle in soil and animals for years, sometimes even decades. Over the past century, 18 Americans have fatally inhaled anthrax spores. The victims include a San Francisco woman who played bongo drums made from infected skins, and gardeners who handled fertilizer made with ground bone from infected animals...
...Japanese; those were the languages the tunes were sung in. Even a few translated songs had the novelty of distance and difference - "Skokian," for instance. As I recall the English lyric, it wore its ethnographic condescension jovially: "Oh, far away in Africa,/ Happy happy Africa,/ They do a bingo-bongo-bingo/ In hokey-smoky-Skokian...