Word: congas
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...they saying where they took Mohammed after his arrest. He is likely to end up in VIP detention, kept in isolation, like Zubaydah and Binalshibh. Mohammed faces a conga line of interrogators: U.S. military officials, the CIA, the FBI. And even if Mohammed never talks, anything found on discs, on his cell phone or in his pockets that indicates names or locations of other al-Qaeda operatives could help in finding the lower-level terrorists who look to him for command and control. Working up and down his lines of communication might prevent any attacks he was overseeing. "Clearly...
...truth. Mtukudzi refuses to decrypt his lyrics. "I'm happy for people to get meaning from my songs," he says. It helps that there's usually consensus about what he's singing. Take the hugely popular Wasakara, from his 2000 album Bvuma (Tolerance). To the beat of conga drums and the gentle rattle of hosho shakers, Tuku presses an aged man to admit there are things he can no longer do: "You are spent/ It is time to accept you are old." Most Zimbabweans heard an allusion to the President, then 76. A crew member at a show thought...
Teachers say the key to Greg & Steve's music is the physical interaction their rock-flavored songs--such as Can't Sit Still, The Boogie Walk and Conga Line--virtually require. No laid-back lullabies, these beat-heavy, infectious numbers demand nonstop waving, shaking, stomping and singing along. The effect can be therapeutic. "I had a little guy in class who was so quiet and shy, I thought he had a speech impediment," says Mona Kolodzie, a kindergarten teacher at John Muir Elementary School in Contra Costa County, Calif. "Once he heard Greg & Steve, he started coming...
...what made this World Cup truly memorable were the tiny bonfires that football's up-and-comers set under the established sides. Although no underdog actually broke through, what fun it was to watch the Senegalese, with their ecstatic conga-line celebrations after their unexpected goals. And the Turks, whose relentless perseverance eventually paid off when they secured a 3-2 victory over the indefatigable Koreans in the battle for third place. Who could forget the end of that match; Korean and Turkish players with their arms around one another's shoulders, saluting the Korean fans. Next time, at World...
...what made this World Cup truly memorable were the tiny bonfires that football's up-and-comers set under the established sides. Although no underdog actually broke through, what fun it was to watch the Senegalese, with their ecstatic conga-line celebrations after their unexpected goals. And the Turks, whose relentless perseverance eventually paid off when they secured a 3-2 victory over the indefatigable Koreans in the battle for third place. Who could forget the end of that match; Korean and Turkish players with their arms around one another's shoulders, saluting the Korean fans. Next time, at World...