Word: continentality
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Now, following momentous visits to Turkey and Brazil, the 80-year-old Pope begins a three-day September swing that looks similar - on paper - to his low-key itinerary back a year ago. He hopped back just across the Alps on Friday, this time for three days in Austria, which...
Africa has long been renowned for its musical heritage, but it's only comparatively recently that the continent has been exporting it abroad. Youssou N'Dour and the Senegal born hip-hop artist Akon may have broken into the pop mainstream, but both had to conform to Western tastes and...
And unlike in the West where pop music is defined almost purely in terms of its entertainment value, in Africa it's common for even the most popular artists to discuss the continent's weighty social problems in their songs. For Kane, the musical is most definitely the political. "For...
Indeed, such will be the new inter-connectedness between the continent and the U.K. that some optimists predict it might herald a change in Britons' notorious island mentality. Says Ruse, "We could even see ourselves becoming more a part of Europe."
By framing his campaign this way, Giuliani has raised an interesting question. What does it actually mean to understand terrorism? His supporters might find the question absurd. He owns terrorism, they say. The entire world watched on television as Giuliani led New York City through the aftermath of a terrorism...