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Each of these youngsters was given a TV show - the so-called zitcom - followed usually by a recording contract with Disney-owned Hollywood Records, songs in heavy rotation on Radio Disney and on Disney-movie sound tracks, a concert tour with Disney-owned Buena Vista Concerts and tie-in merchandise throughout the Disney stores. Miley & Co. are like modern Mouseketeers, but instead of M-I-C-K-E-Y, they spell...
...breezy night in 1979, Mercedes Sosa, the Argentine crooner dubbed "the voice of the voiceless," was arrested along with 200 of her fans during a concert in La Plata. Sosa's crime was singing out against the brutal military regime that was ruling Argentina with violence and terror and making political dissidents disappear. Were it not for her voice, Sosa would probably have vanished too. Instead, she was released and told never to return to the country. "I had no place to sing," she later recalled. "So I had to go look for applause in Europe...
...roots in Andean and tango rhythms and boosted a six-decade career in which she performed with singers as diverse as Luciano Pavarotti, Ray Charles, Shakira and Joan Baez, who was once so moved by Sosa's music that she fell to the vocalist's feet during a concert and kissed her toes. Just months before her death, Sosa released an acclaimed album, Cantora 1, which was nominated for three Latin Grammys...
...face, the two comments sounded like a contradiction. But at the White House, there is no confusion. More stimulus is coming, but it just won't be called stimulus. Economic advisers, in concert with senior Democrats in the House and Senate, are planning additional piecemeal benefit extensions, tax breaks and other spending that could eventually add up to as much as $100 billion, say some outside experts. "The fact is that this is a word game. It isn't a discussion of the 'second stimulus,' " says Jennifer Psaki, a White House spokeswoman. "This needs to be an ongoing discussion between...
...attending the recent DJ Tiësto concert has emboldened you to fulfill your destiny of becoming a global electronic sensation, but you are stumped on how to share your musical genius with the rest of the world, look no further than the Quad...