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Makeba's new CD, Homeland (Putumayo), her first album of new material in more than six years, is a musical love letter to African culture (one song is titled Africa Is Where My Heart Lies). From the beginning of her career, she has been fearless in singing and speaking about Africa. In 1960, because of her outspokenness about political repression in South Africa, the apartheid regime invalidated her passport. "When I came out [to the U.S.], I wasn't even aware that people would think I was a politician or I was talking or singing politics," says Makeba...
Moreover, the sanctions have only increased popular support for Hussein's regime because in response to relentless U.S. pressure, the Iraqi people have rallied behind their "fearless" leader. Meanwhile, as sanctions have decimated the Iraqi people, they have shattered the few institutions that could have harbored and sustained opposition against Hussein's government. But although the sanctions are now working in Hussein's favor, much of this turnaround is due to factors that are out of his control...
...storm drain. If it turned green, it meant that sewage was illegally running into the drain. He sat next to pipes throughout the night waiting for intermittent eruptions of toxic effluent. He busted apartment buildings, stores, car dealers, restaurants, bars and a flying school at the Westchester County Airport. Fearless, he once blocked an angry developer's bulldozers with his body as he radioed for support...
...schoolchildren, Hispanic social workers, Catholic clergymen--or, as was the case last Thursday in Austin, Texas, gay Republicans. So it was in keeping with the script earlier in the week that after dropping by an adult learning center in a gritty west Cleveland, Ohio, neighborhood and testing out his fearless, if primitive Spanish, Bush went around the corner to the West Side Ecumenical Ministry to announce a plan to help the working poor buy health insurance, make a down payment on a new home and build up personal savings. The price tag: a very un-Republican $42 billion over five...
...arriviste set) was pompously entitled “The Chianti Wars.” In retrospect, it was very Christian and noble of them: an attempt to stem the inevitable tide of a decaying Western Civilization, as evinced by Dan, the transvestite who sat to the left of our fearless author. Perhaps I was overcome by a certain nostalgie de la bou. Perhaps, in my infinite naiveté, I thought I might actually resolve, once and for all, the eternal conundrum in the realm of Chianti vinification beliefs: to governo or not to governo. Perhaps I hoped that our leader...