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When midnight at last arrived on March 6, 1957, church bells sounded across Accra. The crowds, who had filled the city streets with the hum of celebration and hope, pushed into the square outside Parliament and cheered as Britain's Union Flag was lowered, and the green, gold and red colors of the new nation of Ghana were hoisted in a light breeze. In a nearby polo ground, Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah broke into dance and then spoke of a dream finally realized. "Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world," he declared. "At long last...
RUNNING. Al Franken, 55, liberal political satirist; for the U.S. Senate; in a move that generated an immediate hum around a rather uneventful Minnesota Senate race. Franken, who hopes to oust Republican incumbent Norm Coleman in 2008, made the announcement on the final day of his Air America radio show, saying he plans to prove to voters that "he takes [the] issues seriously...
...third single, “What Goes Around...Comes Around (Interlude)” is a big, flashy spectacle, but it adds little to his credit as an actor, which seems to be the clip’s goal. The nine-and-a-half-minute video tells the ho-hum story of a lounge singer (Timberlake) who meets a sexy mama (guest star Scarlett Johansson, still in blonde bombshell mode). They go at it until she cheats on him with his BFF, played by JT’s Alpha Dog costar Shawn Hatosy. Contrary to the song, the dialogue...
...sound produced by the Gyuto monks’ throat singing technique was guttural as well as sonorous beyond belief. The impossibly low-pitched reverberations swelled up from deep within the monks’ throats, creating an enveloping resonant hum louder and stronger than many in the audience had ever heard–or may ever hear again...
...dedication (“To the fans that held us down / Til errrbody came areeeownd”), the album already smacks of laziness. This apathy gets worse when the group steals Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” for the ingeniously titled “Hum Hallelujah,” or lifts the choral melody from the Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” for the track “You’re Crashing, but You’re No Wave...