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When midnight at last arrived on March 6, 1957, church bells sounded across Accra. The crowds, who had filled the city streets with the hum of celebration and hope, pushed into the square outside Parliament and cheered as Britain's Union Flag was lowered, and the green, gold and red colors of the new nation of Ghana were hoisted in a light breeze. In a nearby polo ground, Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah broke into dance and then spoke of a dream finally realized. "Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world," he declared. "At long last...
...born; Linus is his Christian, or colonial name. At school, in the lush hills of the Volta region - an area that had originally been colonized by the Germans, but later came under British rule - the young Kwame sang God Save the King and saluted the British flag. "That's the training for discipline," remembers Kwame, now 72. Along with discipline, the British brought some measure of modernity to Ghana - schools, hospitals - but from a young age Kwame sensed that "they would not open up development how we wanted it. They were our colonial masters...
...wine logo on a stock car--in 2003--for his Bennett Lane brand,which has received 90+ scores from Wine Spectator. This year Richard Childress, owner of three Nextel Cup teams and two Busch series teams, will target first-time wine drinkers with his Childress Classic, a checkered-flag-labeled Cab Merlot. But some old-school fans like Texas racing legend A.J. Foyt aren't savoring the trend. A die-hard beer drinker, Foyt says he'll keep steering clear of wine, adding, "I've never been into crap like that...
...DeGeneres is not the only lesbian host who's having a great year. Last fall Rosie O'Donnell took over The View like the loudest third-grader at a school recital and made it a must-see--building buzz, tweaking Donald Trump and waving her sexuality like a semaphore flag. This doesn't mean America is about to elect Barney Frank President. But it means that in the intimate genre of TV hosting, there's an open seat for gay people at the national coffee table...
...room filled with autumn foliage and motionless alter egos of the band members, the video reaches its logically illogical conclusion. At first annoying, then perhaps amusing, the video is ultimately pretty funny. The low-budget effects and cute visual jokes (like a carefully placed DFA Records moon flag) attest to the band’s self-parodying vibe. The song is rather silly, with lyrics that seem to be written by someone who’s taken a few too many moon rocks to the head. If you can get past the video’s gratuitous moon violence...