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...will end in India when shiny new Chetaks and the Maruti 800 disappear from India's streets - an era that marked the emergence of a modern India struggling to align its traditional values with modern aspirations. As Singh put it: "It was good while it lasted, but now its time to move...
...particular bubble world. Here Lies Love was first performed in concert in 2006; Byrne had initially hoped to stage it in dance clubs. "In those days, there were these giant mega-clubs in warehouses," he says, "and I thought: what if you put a little stage at one end with a video screen, and you had a series of songs that told a story with an emotional arc to it? When you were there, you'd be dancing and drinking and God knows what, but something would be imparted beyond just the arc of a DJ set. That...
...political power and her break with Cumpas. By the last few songs, however, everything falls apart: following years of martial law and the assassination of Marcos' rival, Benigno Ninoy Aquino (who had briefly dated Imelda in their youth), the Philippines are on the verge of collapse; in the end, U.S. Marines airlift Imelda and Ferdinand into exile. (See the top 10 albums...
...fully support the Prime Minister. Both the Prime Minister and his security chiefs have appeared reluctant to use force to break up the protests, but results of an online poll by the English-language Bangkok Post newspaper said that nearly 60% of respondents supported the use of force to end the demonstrations...
...began operations at Manas in 2001. In Moscow in February 2009, perhaps spurred by the offer of a $2 billion loan from Russia, Bakiyev publicly complained that the U.S. wasn't paying enough for its use of the base. That same month, the Kyrgyz parliament voted to end the U.S. presence, though ultimately the lease was renewed with the hefty rent increase. (Read a brief history of Kyrgyzstan...