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...poetry to a soulful groove, which the pair describe as "poetic delivery with musical intent." Overall, though, pessimism reigns, especially for Ms. Dynamite and the other U.K. urban contenders. Says Jamieson, "The exportability [to the U.S.] of black, urban, U.K. street music has always been hard. You need the clout of a major [label] to get somewhere and even then the U.S. majors always look to their own. It's the most insular market in the world." Mick and Keith may still be flying the Union Jack before millions of satisfied Americans (at least when they play together...
...humiliated in state elections last week in Hesse and Lower Saxony (Schröder's home state). And it's not the rival Christian Democratic Union (CDU), which despite its gains hasn't yet come up with a coherent plan for economic reform. No, the organization with the most clout these days is an obscure legislative group called the Mediation Committee. Meeting in a soundproof Berlin conference room with no natural light - it's referred to as the Dark Room by pundits - this secretive political council hammers out agreements on legislation that has been adopted by the lower house...
...dean clearly did not comport with Fonda’s pet project. Lagemann’s goal—focusing on research of K-12 education—must take precedence over the fancies of wealthy donors. Try as she might to turn her dollars into intellectual clout, Fonda—as well as other donors—must leave the direction of academic institutions to the academics...
Criticizing Democratic campaigners for taking union support for granted in the most recent presidential and legislative elections, the AFL-CIO political director presented his organization’s new strategy for regaining political clout in the 2004 presidential election in the Barker Center for the Humanities yesterday evening...
Nearly 30 students met to brainstorm ways for the IOP to use its clout to combat the widespread youth apathy they described as a national political crisis—a shift they said would not strain the IOP’s student and financial resources...