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...they can't understand a word that's being sung. Asereje is mostly gibberish. The title doesn't mean anything. The comprehensible parts of the lyrics tell the story of Diego, a young gypsy with Rastafarian leanings who likes clothes, dancing and music. But look at the chorus: "Asereje ja de je be jebe tu de jebere sebiunouva majabi an de bugui an de buididipi." This isn't Spanish. This is not even Spanglish, as the export version claims to be. Though he loves hip hop, Diego "can't speak English," explains Lucia. So he improvises, and much...
...from language. But the British still do feel close in a more general sense, and although I do not claim to fully understand the phenomenon, I suspect it owes something to the sheer volume of Ame rican mass media and culture Britain imports. South Park and Oprah dominate television, Ja Rule gets more radio play than Oasis, and Starbucks and McDonald’s are sometimes harder to escape here than back home. Every major nation has imported a wealth of A merican culture, to be fair, but the English can’t seem to get enough...
...soldiers brought in additional food for the clerics, they shared it with everyone inside. "They ate what we ate," Salah says, "and in equal portions." Eventually, the monks began stripping the leaves from lemon trees in the courtyard. "We'd make soup out of that, with salt," says Salah. Ja'ara and his comrades chopped up lemon rinds and fried them. "It was enough to make you sick for two weeks to taste it," he said. Ahmed al-Ayan, a fleshy 200-pounder when the siege began, came out 40 pounds lighter...
...Ja, now all those little Poles and Czechs will haff no choice but to luff us again...
Former FM editor Jennifer Y. Hyman ’02 is a social studies concentrator in Quincy House. J-Hy, as she is not known, has not recorded a duet with Ja Rule...