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...achieve all that Tuku says." Maybe what Mapfumo suggests would happen sooner if Zimbabweans took what Tuku says to heart. "Solving Zimbabwe's problems begins with us," says Mtukudzi, 50. "We have to help ourselves first." For him, step one is to look inward. What are Zimbabweans living and dying for? What really matters? Tuku's reputation has been built on asking and answering such questions, through parable and metaphor. Outsiders who don't have the social or political context - or fluency in Shona or Ndebele - might not understand the references in his songs. The words may even seem preachy...
...There is nothing less than a crisis now in national youth engagement in politics,” Buttigieg said. “We want to look forward, not inward...
Aside from a couple of political rants, these two-and three-minute bursts of verse mostly look inward: at the pain of love, the poignance of failed dreams, the lure of Krispy Kreme doughnuts. An abused woman exhorts herself to "hit like a man." An Asian American celebrates his ethnic group: "We are programming your websites, making your executives look smart." There's the fable of Shine, a stoker on the Titanic who "jumped his black ass into the dark sea" and cheerfully swam home while the rich folks drowned. And a cry against the exploitative record industry...
...press the alliance to commit to a more proactive, even preemptive fight against terrorism. "Ours is a military alliance, and every member must make a military contribution to that alliance," he said. " The world needs the nations of this continent to be active in the defense of freedom; not inward-looking or isolated by indifference. Ignoring dangers or excusing aggression may temporarily avert conflict, but they don't bring true peace." And although he said member states were free to choose whether to join the U.S. in a "coalition of the willing" should military action against Iraq be necessary...
...have done so not because the Americans want it, but to keep up with the British. While it's true that the alliance no longer needs to fight the wars of old, it may not yet be ready to address the newest dangers. "NATO needs to pivot from an inward focus to an outward one, because the greatest threats we face are no longer from within Europe, but from the region stretching from North Africa to Central Asia," says Nicholas Burns, the U.S. ambassador to NATO. "The big threat is the nexus of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction...