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...Even if Kim should fall to a U.S. onslaught, it's unlikely there will be post-overthrow photographs of joyful North Koreans celebrating the demise of their oppressor. Kim keeps the public in constant fear of a U.S. attack to maintain his grip on power. Schoolchildren are instructed to chant "The U.S. is our worst enemy" in front of the U.S.S. Pueblo, an American spy ship captured by the North Koreans in 1968 that is still on display on the banks of the Daedong River in Pyongyang. They win school sporting contests by being the first to use a wooden...
Speak, Stone begins with a haunting chant-like melody as the camera of Jacob Richman ’03 pans from an ancient Italian cityscape to a single stone, clothesline and church. Richman’s video, the product of a summer spent researching Sardinian folk singing, is a meditation on harmony. And harmony exists on many levels in the short, pastoral video...
...April 19th, Rashid Kokas pulled back a dirty white cloth from a skeleton believed to be his brother, Bashar. "No one says, no one knows," he cried, the universal chant of mourners denied information about loved ones disappeared into Saddam's Gulag. A follower of radical Shiite cleric Mohamed Al Sadr, Bashar was arrested on July 1, 2000 and accused of seditious religious activity. Rashid says that after bribing guards he learned his 30-year-old brother had been hung. Pressing for confirmation, Rashid was told to back off or face the same...
...best, confusing. On the one hand, Chalabi's forces have helped the U.S. capture some leading Baathists, and maintain order in one or two towns. On the other hand, their presence has become a lightning rod for Iraqi opposition and hostility - "No, no Chalabi" has become a familiar chant at Shiite political rallies in different parts of the country...
...CHANT WARS. Early music performers and scholars Benjamin Bagby and Katarina Livljanic will conduct a lecture-demonstration on April 21 co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard’s Department of Music and Learning From Performers at the Office for the Arts. In 1977, Bagby, a vocalist and harpist, co-founded Sequentia, an internationally acclaimed ensemble that combines vocal and instrumental virtuosity with innovative research and programming to reconstruct the living musical traditions of medieval Europe. Livljanic, a singer and musicologist, trained at the Zagreb Music Conservatory and directs Dialogos, a vocal ensemble specializing...