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...says. “People who wouldn’t normally try out saw their friends doing it and decided that it might be fun. It was really a community thing.”James A. Fish ’10, a model and a dancer in a hip-hop segment of the show, initially got involved in “Identities” at the urging of his friends Wang and Jun Li ’10.“So far it’s been interesting, to say the least—a little different from what...
...made all the more important by the ongoing conflict in places like Darfur. Combining his self-professed skill for remembering images with his ability to build tension, Beah highlights the effects of a brutal civil war that left a mark on anyone it touched. A child who loved hip hop and performed interpretative dances to the likes of LL Cool J, Beah lived a normal life that was interrupted by rebel soldiers who forced him to wander from town to town with his friends in search of safety. After his parents were killed by the rebels, Beah was forced into...
...political will brings resentment, to be sure. But it also allows charlatans to flourish. When natural resources such as fish and trees aren't being plundered, then assets like public land and houses are being stolen by crooked politicians and officials. Normality, for these unlucky folk, is a short hop from despair...
...every morning and evening, the country runs on rails. In 2005, Japanese traveled 243 billion miles by railroad - nearly 1,900 miles per person. And 49 billion of those miles were covered by the shinkansen, the super-fast bullet trains that make intercity travel as simple as a subway hop. If all you've ever known is the slow torture of Amtrak, you won't believe trains that reach 170 mph, depart for major cities at least six times an hour, and measure punctuality in tenths of seconds. Still, the Japanese want to go faster...
...Sarkozy isn't the only candidate seeking ghetto affirmation through his choice of song. Olivier Besancenot, candidate of the Revolutionary Communist League, has used this hip-hop interpretation of the classic socialist anthem "The Internationale" for most of his 2007 campaign...