Word: boom
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...musical follows Sayid Al Boom, a young Afghan peasant who dreams of making it big as a flower farmer. He becomes enchanted by a mysterious veiled woman and takes up work at her "poppy export" company, only to learn later that she's a terrorist and her company is a front for a jihadi cell plotting to blow up an "Unidentified, Very Prestigious Landmark" in the West. A motley crew of extremists, who "rock the righteous to the jihad jive," recruit Sayid, and he must ultimately choose between betraying his new family or suicide...
...Buju Banton - whose smash hit from the 1990s "Boom Bye Bye" also advocates the shooting and burning of gay men - last week signed the "reggae compassionate act" after a three-year campaign by Stop Murder Music. Banton, a Grammy-nominated artist who broke Bob Marley's record of most number one singles in a year on the Jamaican charts, pledged to "respect" the rights of gays to live without fear of violence...
...Since "Boom Bye Bye" was released in the early 1990s there has been a corresponding rise in homophobic violence in the Caribbean, although it's difficult to tell which came first - the music or the violence. According to Jamaican gay rights group J-Flag - which refuses to give out its address in the capital, Kingston, "due to the potential for violent retributions" - the rise in homophobic violence culminated in reports of crowds lynching suspected homosexuals after concerts...
...usual, pointed challenges arose. One questioner noted that the construction boom depended largely on cheap labor from the Indian subcontinent, labor that will grow more expensive as these workers are integrated into society down the road. Another questioner expressed skepticism about occupancy rates. This kind of push and pull is what makes markets, of course. The difference is that for hedge funds, trades gone wrong can be disastrous...
...credit for thwarting terror attacks on both sides of the Mediterranean. Outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair traveled to Tripoli in May to hail Libya's "completely transformed" behavior, and predicted that the flourishing security and defense relationship between the two nations would soon be followed by a business boom as well...