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...music of this prolific Appalachian clan has always swung towards confessional lo-fi, notable mostly for guilt obsession and Will’s achy singing than the instrumentation. Ned’s singing is stronger than his brother’s, but his soaring voice never stands in the center of the picture: three songs on their latest, Joji, extend seven minutes in length, and a lot of that time is spent with the band doing their best Grateful Dead...
...Back Your report on "Asia's Heroes" [Oct. 11] included a feature on Mukhtar Mai, a Pakistani woman who successfully fought the injustice of local tribal law. After Mai was gang-raped on the orders of a self-appointed village council (to preserve the tribal honor of a local clan), she courageously pursued her case in the courts despite the threat of further violence. Mai won, and six men involved in her rape were punished; two of them were sentenced to death. That is a tremendous example for women across the world who are suffering from similar atrocities based...
...With everyone choosing Genghis' name, that's also confusing." GANAA, 30-year-old Mongolian woman, on a government program encouraging people to pick new surnames. More than half choose Borjigin, the clan name of Genghis Khan...
...Harvard undergraduates will feel about the play’s approach to a former member of their clan, Kaling says, “Matt is the smart hero in the play bound for greatness. That’s very flattering, isn?...
...foot in the grimy dirt and the other on the gold-paved road. Since 1994, the band has been combining their Nashville roots, laden with lap steels and banjos, with a more experimental exploration of the boundaries of rock, and their star still shines bright for both the clan of purists who collect their every bootleg and the thousands of Rolling Stone readers who just wanted to see what all the fuss was about...