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...been working on an agreement involving Israel withdrawing some of its deployments around Palestinian towns, and the Palestinian Authority for its part keeping protestors away from the Israeli military outposts in Gaza and the West Bank that have been the flash-points of the last week's violence. But with his people - and the wider Arab world - enraged by Israel's actions, Arafat may be reluctant to be seen to be too easily drawn into new deals. Reports from the West Bank and Gaza suggest that efforts may already be underway to implement the cease-fire terms, although new clashes...
...fictional history of the U.S. as portrayed through the conduct, mostly bad, of its elected leaders. This best-selling saga started with Washington, D.C. and continued with Burr (1973), 1876 (1976), Lincoln (1984), Empire (1987) and Hollywood (1990). The Golden Age wraps up the long story and includes a flash-forward to earlier this year, when Peter Sanford, overweight and 77, visits the Italian villa of his old friend Gore Vidal to tape a television program of shared musings under the direction of a young man named A.B. Decker, a descendant of Aaron Burr...
...Message" Grandmaster Flash Showed that hip-hop could be a commercially viable social critique...
...back to an era they may find hard to imagine. After all, the almost pharaonic fantasy world of a Puffy Combs video is light-years away from the hand-stenciled mimeographs with crude sketches advertising an around-the-way appearance of Kurtis Blow or a block party featuring Grandmaster Flash. This was a do-it yourself movement in the outer boroughs, a culture being built by hand, brick by brick - one to which the suits running the music industry in the glass towers across the river were mostly impervious for more than a decade...
...THOSE PARTIES in the "Boogie Down" South Bronx where hip-hop's founding fathers - Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaata and Grandmaster Flash - first began delivering spoken rhymes over the break beats on funk and disco records sometime in the mid-'70s. Today the signature beats-and-rhymes combination of the musical art form they created is as ubiquitous in America's tony suburbs as in its forgotten housing projects, and has kids in distant parts of the world whose first language may be French or Japanese or Wolof chanting choruses inviting their friends to "get at me, dawg...