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...indigenous peoples sought redress through roadblocks and public protests instead. Still, Canada's attempts to codify native self-government was the latest sign that the struggle for political recognition by native peoples across North and South America is bearing some fruit. From the Yukon to Yuma to Cape Horn, indigenous peoples are using new strategies to recover some of the land, resources and sovereignty they lost in the past 500 years. They have negotiated, sued, launched international campaigns, occupied land and, in a few cases, taken up arms to press their cause, marking in their own way the quincentennial...
Julian Cope has nobody to blame but himself. With his psychedelic horn-driven post-punk group The Teardrop Explodes, and on his seven subsequent solo releases, Cope has proven his ability to combine high intellectual weirdness with a razor-sharp pop sensibility. So how come the best singer/songwriter to come out of Liverpool since, say, 1962 has nothing but a half-handful of U.K. hits to show for his 13-year career? Simple: Cope seems to have no idea when he's being a genius and when he's recording pretentious dreck. Well, thank God for anthologists. Floored Genius...
...first four tracks are drawn from The Teardrop Explodes' debut LP, Kilimanjaro (1980). Standouts include the dementedly jazzy hit single "Reward" (which rhymes "queues" with "Howard Hughes") and the shiny creepy "Sleeping Gas." Dissonant guitar and horn solos over driving, repetitive rhythm sections are the norm here, but this stuff is too much fun to feel avant-garde...
...press kit distributed to reporters at the Democratic National Convention shrewdly listed Elvis Aron Presley as Entertainment Coordinator, and Clinton staff I.D.s included mock-ups of the Elvis stamp with a horn-blowing Clinton replacing the King. Eager to get in on the act, running mate Al Gore began his convention speech by remarking that he never thought he would be "the warm-up act for Elvis...
...time champion of the New England women's singlehanded competition, Trotman was twice named the leading woman sailor in New England. In 1987, 1988 and 1989, she was listed as one of ten outstanding college women sailors, Horn said...