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Other performances, like The Drummers of the Pan-African Dance and Music Ensemble’s “Drum Call,” were directly influenced by Haitian art. In one thrilling performance, Sidi M. Camara paced back and forth across the stage while he drummed with inexhaustible charisma. The piece was a medley of vigorous Haitian rhythms, displaying the vitality of Haitian culture. While watching the performance, one got the irrepressible feeling that the energy that animates Haitian culture is still alive and well. Edwidge Danticat, as quoted by Dean Evelyn M. Hammonds, said of the Haitian people...
Republican Congressman Paul Ryan recently received an unexpected olive branch, in a most unexpected setting. During a public sparring session with House Republicans in Baltimore on Jan. 29, President Obama singled out the Janesville, Wis., native, who has put forth a controversial plan to balance the federal budget with a sweeping overhaul of Medicare and Social Security, which together with defense spending comprise 55% of the government's total outlays. Obama called Ryan's "Roadmap for America's Future" a "serious proposal" and praised its author as a "pretty sincere guy" with a "beautiful family." It was a rare moment...
Conservatives seemed to make clear, though, that any alliance with the movement would have to be on the terms the manifesto has set forth. "You cannot dictate beliefs to people," Keene says. "What you can do is say, Here's a cohesive set of values and beliefs that have tied us together ... We'd love to have you share them with us." That sort of courtship, says conservative commentator David Frum, reflects the determination of the Beltway insiders to dig in their heels against efforts to remake a party they've helped build. "It's the last stand...
...White House," concedes Jim Manley, a senior adviser to Reid. Manley says Reid decided to pull the bill when he couldn't get an agreement from the Republican leadership to proceed despite the bipartisan backing of the bill. "Reid decided to simplify this process and put forth fully paid-for measures that have bipartisan support," Manley says. (Watch a video about why Harry Reid encouraged Obama to run for President...
...euro down even further. Hopeful to reverse that, euro zone finance ministers held a follow-up meeting on Monday that was intended to show their collective determination to back Athens up. But the ministers seemed instead to belittle the cost-cutting measures that Greece had proposed by putting forth their own plan for the country to cut spending, raise taxes and finance its debt within 30 days...