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...fact, Western and Arab media are driven by the same imperative--to feed the hunger for human interest. Their interests are simply in different humans. On U.S. TV it means press conferences with soldiers who have hand and foot injuries and interviews with POWs' families, but little blood. On Arab and Muslim TV it means dead bodies and mourning. History will have to sort out many points on which Western and Middle Eastern TV differ: how effective the allied war effort is, how warmly Iraqis will receive its results and which media are most accurate and neutral. What...
...latest in a running battle waged since Ansar had been driven from its front line in the lowlands. A day earlier, about 100 U.S. soldiers had joined with Kurdish peshmerga (those who face death) in an assault against Ansar's base. The U.S. bombs flattened a mosque in the village of Biarra that had been used as terrorist headquarters, replete with a gun pit on top. The assault capped a week of pummeling by American Tomahawk cruise missiles that prompted the al-Qaeda-linked militants to take to the snowy mountains bordering Iran. This corner of northeastern Iraq, near...
Cooman’s music is tonally striking and rhythmically driven in a way that lends the opera surprising immediacy. Tonal contrast and dynamic changes fit the libretto perfectly, and still manages to avoidspredictability entirely. The listener is forced to move along with the opera’s fluctuations and pangs of emotion, such that at the end the audience aches for some peaceful resolution...
...songs like the Two-Tone influenced “Gene By Gene” and the bass-driven “Moroccan People’s Revolutionary Bowls Club” are jarringly new. On those tracks, Albarn’s usual penchant for clever lyrics and tight pop structures are sacrificed for sing-along and slick production...
...Root will be performing in Hampton, New Hampshire this weekend, bringing their characteristic Latin and African-inspired tunes to the stage. This six-member band hailing from Pittsburgh released their latest album Welcome to My Party in 2002. The band has gained a grassroots following for their unique percussion-driven music. Saturday, April 5, at 8 p.m. The Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd., Hampton, NH. Tickets, $24.50. For more information, call...