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...Clark walked into, and deftly out of, his own scandal, when in 1959 the House Oversight Committee investigated payola, the record industry's system of bribing disc jockeys and program managers in return for airplay. It ended the career of Alan Freed, the man credited with applying the black sexual term rock-and-roll to jump music. (By the way, that's a lie; the phrase goes back much earlier than Freed. In the 1941 film "Swing for Your Supper" young Dorothy Dandridge sings of her musical education: "They made me rock 'n roll ... brought me up on good...
...deep embarrassment to Hassan II, their travail prompted a series of efforts to address Morocco's human-rights abuses. The Oufkirs were immediately transferred to a luxury villa in Marrakech, where they spent four years being fattened up under house arrest before finally being freed in 1991. Not long afterward, Hassan II released the Tazmamart prisoners--58 ex-soldiers who had allegedly taken part in another coup and had been locked in tiny cells with little food and no light 24 hours a day for 18 years. After Hassan II's death in 1999, his son, King Mohammed VI, hastened...
Chittagong is a good base for traveling into the precipitous jungle hills bordering Burma to visit indigenous tribes (see Detour). But check on security: it was here insurgents took two Danes and a Briton hostage in February. (Soldiers freed them a month later.) You can also take a 20-minute motorcycle-taxi ride north to Sitakunda, one of the great graveyards of the sea. At first glance, it seems like just another coastal town on the way to somewhere else. But behind the row of one- and two-story homes is a stunning beachscape. The setting sun silhouettes scores...
...When Air released its album Moon Safari early in 1998, the world discovered the awesome potential French music could have once it freed itself from its inferiority complex. While precursor Daft Punk remained rooted in the strobe-lit euphoria of dance culture, Air's eclecticism hitched up '60s film soundtracks with drum machines and spacey synthesizers to create a crisp pop sound you could listen to outside the nightclub...
...until this intifada began. At that point, there were attacks but they were relatively few. We're not going out on a limb by saying that all the attacks during this intifada, while they were not done by Arafat, were organized by people who very often had been freed from jail by Arafat, and if he'd continued the security coordination, which he'd agreed to, then those bombings wouldn't have taken place...