Word: fervors
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...royalties collection societies - Britain's mcps-prs Alliance and Germany's gema - to offer its Anglo-American songs under a single, one-stop license to European mobile and online services, rather than on a clunky territory-by-territory basis. And consumers - especially teens - are embracing the new technology with fervor. Ringtune sales of Atlanta rap group Dem Franchize Boyz's single, I Think They Like Me , soared to more than 850,000, when EMI made it available simultaneously with the radio release...
...sort, and protesters like those in Kabul have a message for the West: Get used to it. Across the Islamic world, daily demonstrations of varying size and intensity have brought hundreds of thousands into the streets--some driven as much by disgruntlement as by religious fervor, but many others motivated by genuine outrage at the perceived desecration of the most revered figure in Islam. Yet even for Westerners sympathetic to Muslims' right to vent their anger, the mayhem that marked the protests last week was as unsettling as the cartoons themselves. A day after mobs in Damascus torched the Danish...
...Bennifer blitz, the Monica moment, the Janet Jackson distraction. Ground down and fed up by news that matters, Americans lock their vision on a movie-star romance, a sex scandal, a Super Bowl oops as tabloid headlines and talk-show hosts exploit and orchestrate the public's evanescent fervor...
...over the South started sitting in at lunch counters. And I knew that as they were sitting in, they were really standing up for the best in the American dream, and taking the whole nation back to those great wells of democracy ..." His voice climbed again in rhythm and fervor, using survival as a melodramatic device to relive the civil rights movement. "If I had sneezed," he cried near the end, "I wouldn't have been down in Selma...
McCarthy ran for President four more times, to little note. Some aides complained of his diffidence and cynicism. Yet in one lightning flash, he had diagnosed the national exhaustion that a dead-end war brings and proved that antiwar fervor could change voters' minds. This was not so much political strategy as the almost theological mission of the amateur philosopher and published poet McCarthy was. Lines from his poem "Vietnam Message" could be the words of Gandhi or Pablo Neruda: "We will take our napalm and flame throwers/ out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...