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...behind. This year, Athens will host the 51st annual Eurovision, the Continent-wide song contest that we say we hate but watch anyway. Here's a sneak peak at some acts hoping to make the May 20 finale, with odds calculated by the gambling site Sky Bet. Finland: Lordi Hard Rock Hallelujah. Prepare for the day of rockening. Some Finns aren't convinced this heavy-metal band, decked out like a group of J.R.R. Tolkien refugees, should represent their placid Nordic nation. But chainsaw-wielding Lordi insists it's not a Satanic group, offering a song called Devil...
...British Prime Minister Tony Blair took one on his last summer vacation, and in 1946, British entertainer George Formby incensed South African apartheid architect Daniel Malan by refusing to play his uke for whites-only audiences. However, although the instrument has long been revered in countries such as Germany, Finland and Japan, in Britain it has been considered to be rather silly. It has taken the pluck of the willfully eccentric, 21-year-old Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain to move the four-stringed dynamo toward mainstream recognition...
...focus so much attention on U.S. athletes instead of recognizing the top individuals in each contest is rather narrow-minded. I find it only fitting that some of the prominent U.S. competitors underperformed. I would have preferred a little less cheering for your home team. Riku Reimaa Espoo, Finland Cinematic Mirror I have to disagree with your critic's assessment of the movie Crash - that "people either like the movie or loathe it" because "it is too wide-ranging to really draw you into the lives it recounts" [Feb. 27]. People loathe it because they are forced to recognize their...
...British Prime Minister Tony Blair took one on his last summer vacation, and in 1946, British entertainer George Formby incensed South African apartheid architect Daniel Malan by refusing to play his uke for whites-only audiences. However, although the instrument has long been revered in countries such as Germany, Finland and Japan, in Britain it has been considered to be rather silly. It has taken the pluck of the willfully eccentric, 21-year-old Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain to move the four-stringed dynamo toward mainstream recognition. From humble beginnings in a room above a London pub, the Ukulele...
RIKU REIMAA Espoo, Finland...