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...Kidjo's ideas have never been better expressed than on her latest album, Djin Djin, released last month. The 15 tracks, which address fundamental themes like birth, love, alienation and hope, are sung in a variety of languages - from West European (English and French) to West African (Ewe and Fon). Styles range from Beninese to Brazilian to Bowie - a touch added courtesy of legendary producer Tony Visconti. And the album features a dazzlingly diverse set of collaborators - among them Alicia Keys, Branford Marsalis, Peter Gabriel, Mali's Amadou and Mariam, Ziggy Marley, German singer Joy Denalane and Italian Carmen Consoli...
Elected to the Massachusetts House in 1998 and Senate in 2002, Barrios is known as a champion of gay rights and other progressive issues, such as expanding medical coverage for low-income individuals and providing emergency-room interpreters for non-English speaking patients. His district, which covers Middlesex, Suffolk, and Essex counties, is among the most progressive in the state...
...Turner has plans to teach English in France after graduation and eventually to study for a masters of fine arts in poetry...
...fact, Hergé was contrite about Tintin in Congo, which was never published in English during his lifetime. And in the 1930s he was injecting anti-Nazi storylines into his work. In later books, Tintin is found fighting both communists and capitalists, and by the 1970s he had replaced his cloth cap and plus fours with blue jeans and yoga...
Meanwhile Hosseini was growing up in Californian splendor. He learned English, went to high school and college, became a doctor. Audiences at Hosseini's readings are sometimes surprised at how American he looks. He's clean-shaven and handsome--at 42 he bears a passing resemblance to Antonio Banderas. He speaks English with only a slight accent; he has the kind of calm, even voice that must come in handy for delivering bad news to patients. Lounging in the kitchen of the large, neat house he shares with his wife and two children, he wears a cable-knit sweater...