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...howl. Garry Burnside locks in to the groove on bass (Chew is off working today, driving a truck for Williams-Sonoma), David Kimbrough Jr. adds a slinky guitar part, and Kenny Kimbrough wails on a conga. The instruments chase each other around the barn, hanging on a single chord and repeating a riff over and over with subtle variations and rising power while the folks outside dance in the dirt. This is trance music--the kind of sonic moonshine that has been served up for decades in the juke joints of north Mississippi--and it raises a question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coldwater, Miss.: These Hills Are Alive | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

...ZANU-PF did best in the countryside, where it?s demagoguery over land-reform struck a deep chord among section of the rural poor. But the party was roundly trounced in the urban areas (and even many rural constituencies) where voters viewed the government's sudden interest in "redistributing" white farms as a cynical attempt at exploiting rural misery to deflect attention from its own legacy of corruption, catastrophic economic mismanagement, military misadventures and violent suppression of dissent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zimbabwe's Election May Be a Botched Robbery | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

Johnson, a former editor at Time Inc., where Emerge got its start a decade ago before being sold to BET, thinks Emerge failed because "it didn't strike the right chord with its readers." By that, he clearly means that Curry's bristling brand of journalism is no longer marketable to a black bourgeois audience that wants to be entertained, not browbeaten. The new, as yet unnamed, magazine that Vanguarde will bring out next year to take Emerge's place, says Johnson, will be "a black Vanity Fair. Our hope is to create an editorial product that is smart, provocative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Militant Voice Silenced | 6/12/2000 | See Source »

...event was meant to help our group come together, as well as to strike a chord within the Asian-American and general Harvard communities," she added...

Author: By Juliet J. Chung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Colors of Protest | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

Once she got to Stanford, many first-years immediately recognized Anna as the Mandarin Chinese-speaking blond girl from the cover of the New York Times magazine. "I think it really struck a chord because I think a lot of people are kind of bitter they didn't get in," she says now. "It was really trippy... Everyone was like, 'Oh, I didn't get in either.' Blah, blah, blah. So then it really didn't seem like a big deal...

Author: By Andrew K. Mandel and Jonathan S. Paul, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Living With a Harvard Decision | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

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