Word: concertizing
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...Palestinian militants until they're prepared to accept Israel's terms. But many Israelis have expressed surprise and alarm at how soon after "Defensive Shield" Palestinian attacks have resumed. Washington, at least formally, is opposed to Israel seeking a military solution, and the Bush administration's game plan, in concert with moderates, is to restore conditions for dialogue by getting the PA's security structures to clamp down hard on prospective terrorists. But right now ordinary Palestinians are not taking the PA's security structures any more seriously than the Israelis are, and the two effects tend to reinforce each...
...Still, Bono keeps working. During a visit to a school in an Accra slum, a teenage girl asks him to sing, something he rarely does in public away from the concert stage. But this time he makes an exception. Leading scores of children, his hoarse voice unleashes the chorus of "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For." And the tour rolls...
...Japan awards. Her win ensures everyone will remember the name "Ayumi"-at least for the next 10 minutes Losers ROY KEANE Irish captain kicked out of World Cup for divisiveness. Sipping champagne during flight home on private jet, he does deep soul searching GLAY J-Rockers' Beijing concert reportedly canceled because of Korean refugee crisis. Glay threatens to tepidly trash hotel room, dye hair in protest SILVIO BERLUSCONI Italian PM criticized when assistant suggests censoring a political play. As he's not a porn star running for office, Italians pay no notice...
...understandable that Chinese leaders might be a bit wary of massive, uncontrolled mobs of young people. A phenomenon called the Red Guards will do that to you. Maybe that's the real reason why jittery authorities canceled two recent mainland concerts by the mega-popular boy band F4, a quartet of very pretty Taiwanese lads. Their bubblegum music notwithstanding, recent F4 appearances in China have resembled early Beatles films, with out-of-control crowds and packs of swooning teenage girls. The final straw came at a planned concert at a Shanghai mall, when 10,000 fans-10 times the number...
...have been, in effect, Europeanized. Over there, some time in the 19th Century, with the rise of revolutionary and anarchist movements - see, for example, Conrad's "The Secret Agent" or any number of Hitchcock movies - the possibility of the bomb on the crowded bus, the assassination in the concert hall became a possibility that ordinary citizens learned to live with. The immediate cause of World War One was such an act. Safe behind our oceans, we Americans were largely spared the murderous results, and the collateral, largely psychological, damage, of the politics of the cellar - though, come to think...