Word: khan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FOREIGN FILM IS CAPTIVATING--say the Chinese drama Raise the Red Lantern--within a few minutes the subtitles melt away. One forgets that the characters are speaking a different language, and the message of the film, its plot, its humor, come through. So too with music. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is a huge star in his native Pakistan; but although he speaks no English, and his songs are often in Urdu, he has built a following of hipster fans in the U.S. Khan is a singer of qawwali--Sufi Muslim religious music, which, like gospel, seeks to bring listeners closer...
...Khan's elegant new album Night Song (Real World/Caroline) takes the singer in a more worldly direction. Collaborating with Canadian producer-guitarist Michael Brook, Khan ventures into songs about earthly rather than religious love. On the song My Heart, My Life, he also experiments with phrasing that is more direct than the ethereal style of his qawwali work. On Crest, he reels off spiraling vocals over a beat that is almost funky. Says Khan: "I am trying to give my voice greater range." Purists may not like the fact that he's recorded such brazenly entertaining secular songs. No matter...
...meanwhile, took a little while to get going but was able to persevere. He and Amherst's Evan Khan split the first four sets, with Oh winning the second and the third. In the final set, the senior defeated Khan...
During the committee meetings, Harvard students serve as moderators and assistants, keeping order and helping the delegates to reach a consensus, Khan said...
...conference gives out awards to the best delegates in each committee based on the quality of the position paper, performance in formal debate, participation in discussion and personal improvement, Khan said, though "we really emphasize that the awards are not important...