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...summer but has never really caught on. When Baha Men finally recorded "Dogs," they explored beats more familiar to American audiences - throwing in some junkanoo (Bahamian festival music) percussion to give it their signature flair. The result is the catchy rendition you've heard so often: urban, with an echo of the islands. The rest of the CD cleverly vamps on this formula, with the Men at their best when they stay true to Caribbean textures on infectious songs like "Getting Hotter...
...absence of a clear legal precedent on how to treat refugees with mental disabilities, immigration judges are adopting an ad hoc approach. On Sept. 21, a judge in York, Pa., granted the "withholding of removal" to a Chinese paranoid schizophrenic whose circumstances echo De Santiago's. He lost his residency as a result of a felony conviction. The judge found it likely that the 42-year-old man would suffer persecution in China, which advocates sterilization for the mentally ill, and agreed that the man had proved his membership in a "particular social group." A California judge issued a similar...
...away, two pianists playing the same chords in different registers, percussionists plugging away on maracas and castanets, a full symphony string section, and underneath it all the drums of Hal Blaine ("my five favorite drummers", according to Max Weinberg) piped through the galactic dimensions of the Gold Star Studios echo chamber...
Most religions acknowledge that humans can be possessed by what exorcism chronicler Malachi Martin called "personal and intelligent evil," and most prescribe measures to win back the victim. Jesus cast out demons on six occasions; a transdenominational echo of the rite is found in Christian godparents' promise that their godchild will renounce the devil and all his works and ways. For centuries every Roman Catholic priest's ordination included an explicit induction into the Order of the Exorcist...
...Timms looked up, at the American with the flag T shirt, at the crowd decked out in the Aussie colors of green and gold, and she smiled. That weak grin was an echo of Maurice Greene, of Cathy Freeman, of Steve Redgrave. But most of all, it reflected the emotions in the stands, where normal people saw hope and glory on the court and cherished every moment of Olympic history...