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...occasional weekend tent of a Kuwaiti city dweller connecting with his Bedouin roots. But now the country's northern half is a restricted military zone crammed with more than 100,000 U.S. and British troops. Makeshift firing ranges are double-booked. Patrols practicing forays into Iraqi wastelands bump into one another where their perimeters overlap. When troops from the 101st Airborne Division arrived last week, soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division had to move camp back from the border to make room...
...singing would make Simon Cowell cringe, but she regularly packs concerts and performs on national television. She hasn't released a single recording, but one critic estimates that some 3 million pirated VCDs of her performances have been sold in Indonesia. Muslim clerics denounce her bump-and-grind dancing, attempt to ban her concerts, even pray for rain to keep impressionable fans away from her shows, yet politicians are lining up to recruit her support for the 2004 elections. She's become the live wire connecting Indonesia's still nascent freedom of expression with the country's entrenched?and often...
...explored. As I move throughout a day in my life here, I see two possible routes of action; I can worry about the workload ahead of me and resign myself to sink beneath the weight of academia, or I can continue this musical exploration and consider each bump or highlight along the way part of my journey. I know how I’d rather live, and it starts every morning when I wake...
...Another Bump in the Road
...motivation and execution, share a common ingredient: alcohol. “They all get started the same way: from drunk people being stupid,” says Goodwin. “If anything, it’s just that it’s so crowded in there and people bump into each other or a drink gets spilled on somebody...