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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...