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...It’s exciting but the last thing we need is a handful of senators and representatives in Washington beating the drum for their own ends,” he says. “I’m very fearful of it being politicized this much because if it falls in the hands of demagogic politicians, they’ll use it to inflame, to increase their own popularity.” For this reason, Cook says he isn’t ready to move on to a different subject. “The whole reason I got into...
...That You Can't Leave Behind, which has received eight Grammy nominations, including one for Album of the Year--U2 dispensed with the drum loops and DJs it had toyed with on Pop and got back to the hard business of writing big, straightforward songs. Lyrically, Bono was struggling with his father's terminal illness (his father Bob Hewson died of cancer last year), but specificity can be the plague of pop. Songs like One, Where the Streets Have No Name, Stay (Faraway, So Close) and Walk On from All That You Can't Leave Behind achieve the impossible--becoming...
...That You Can't Leave Behind, which has received eight Grammy nominations, including one for Album of the Year?U2 dispensed with the drum loops and DJs it had toyed with on Pop and got back to the hard business of writing big, straightforward songs. Lyrically, Bono was struggling with his father's terminal illness (his father Bob Hewson died of cancer last year), but specificity can be the plague of pop. Songs like One, Where the Streets Have No Name, Stay (Faraway, So Close) and Walk On from All That You Can't Leave Behind achieve the impossible?becoming...
...deal with Adidas worth around $400,000, which includes a one-month training trip to the U.S. A new Taiwanese-owned team allowed into the league this year, the privately held Sina Lions, is raising the bar in terms of shrewd professionalism. Co-owner Daniel Tu managed to drum up $1 million in sponsorships in the Lions' first season. Still, the U.S.-educated Tu, former president of STAR TV in Taiwan, and his partner Daniel Chiang, chairman of China's largest Internet portal, Sina.com, say teams must be given more autonomy if China is to kick-start the high-voltage...
...Twerrapon Traditionals are playing the Spee. This does not mean the Maryland basketball team is going to school a final club. The Twerrapon Traditionals are not collegiate ballers but members of a Ghanaian drum and dance troupe. Their connection to the Spee was made last summer when Spee members Ian D. Broadwater ’02, John A. Roberts ’02 and Allen P. Tsai ’03 were working on AIDS education with the World Education Program in Ghana. According to Roberts, after seeing the Traditionals’ show, the three...