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...Viewed in the context of Black music in America over the past century, there's nothing surprising about hip-hop "crossing over." Blues and jazz crossed over in the 1920s, when whites rushed to Harlem to hear the music. In the 1930s, jazz became - for whites - "swing." When Black musicians created something called bebop (a clear antecedent for hip-hop) in the 1940s, that too crossed over as whites gravitated toward the language, fashion, attitude and music of hip cats like Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. And I think most people today are clear that it was artists like Louis...
Issues like government corruption and centralized power can only be understood in a historical context, he says...
...story had begun the night before as it ricocheted through the bar late last night; rival papers phoned their desks trying to find out who was calling whom a rat and in what context. Without knowing what the story was, a major daily called the Gore campaign for reaction to the Times story, in the hopes that the reaction would tell them what was going...
...September" is troubling nonetheless, for its reminder that even the ugliest acts of terrorism - and bungled official responses - are driven by choices made in a political context. And while the security arrangements today are infinitely more advanced than they were at Munich in 1972, the scourge of terrorism remains...
Clinton felt he needed to give a speech to lay out the security and diplomatic context of the decision, which has immediately become a hot issue in the presidential campaign. But where? The White House rejected using a Washington think tank, fearing leaks. On the other hand, Georgetown's foreign-service school is headed by ROBERT GALUCCI, a former diplomatic troubleshooter for Clinton. Says Lockhart: "For them to get a crowd is easy. All they have to do is hit one button to send an e-mail to their faculty and students: DO YOU WANT TO COME?" Galucci said...