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...American and Arab pop culture icons) featured the singer, some malaise on his face, fiddling with a digital camera in the back seat of a slick black car, driving through the desert on his way to a gig in a hopping and vaguely Arab dance club with his collaborator, Cheb Mami. This said it all: we were globalized, technological, well-funded and figuring out what to do with the rest of the world...

Author: By Peter P.M. Buttigieg, | Title: Rock the Vote? | 11/10/2003 | See Source »

...music and global music aren't mutually exclusive categories. In the '80s Paul Simon, David Byrne and Peter Gabriel blended world beats. More recently, Sting scored a hit with Algerian rai star Cheb Mami, Lauryn Hill covered Bob Marley on MTV Unplugged, and Britney Spears has made a habit of working with Swedish songwriter Max Martin. Madonna, on her latest tour, drew from so many cultures for sonic and sartorial inspiration, it was a surprise Kofi Annan didn't join her for an encore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music Goes Global | 9/15/2001 | See Source »

...Soviets to pay for the pipe before they deliver the gas, a consortium of 17 West German banks will lend them $328 million at 6.25% interest-practically foreign-aid terms. A West German firm will build a link extending an existing pipeline from the Czechoslovak border town of Cheb into Bavaria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Trade: Ostpolitik with Pipes | 2/16/1970 | See Source »

...will eat a lot of. My coat appears like a cloud. My coat is white dotted like the clouds. My children appear like the sky. I live with my children in the forest. My children are very much crybabies if their mother leaves them. Thus cry my children: 'Cheb, cheb, cheb.' I sleep high in a tree. When it is late in the afternoon I sing thus: 'Snhocroro, schoncro, schoncro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Alphabet for Amueshas | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...years ago he had been stationmaster at Asch, a mile from the German border. The Communists had found two men hiding in his house "without documents," and Truksa spent five months in a concentration camp. Now he had only a small job at the station in Eger (Cheb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Comrade Beb Takes a Trip | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

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