Word: kingstone
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...with a board from Jamaican reggae star Buju Banton. Brian, 44, is gay, and Banton, 32, is an avowed homophobe whose song Boom Bye-Bye decrees that gays "haffi dead" ("have to die"). In June 2004, Brian claims, Banton and some toughs burst into his house near Banton's Kingston recording studio and viciously beat him and five other men. After complaints from international human-rights groups, Banton was finally charged last fall, but in January a judge dismissed the case for lack of evidence. It was a bitter decision for Brian, who lost his landscaping business after the attack...
...fusion dance mix spun by a DJ duo. The proceeds from the concert will be donated to the Selula Sandla AME Village, a home for HIV orphans in Swaziland, and the Liberty Hall Youth Culture Center, which teaches cultural literacy and computer skills to children in the ghettoes of Kingston, Jamaica. “No one is strong enough to stand alone—no matter how strong your beat...the movement is stronger than the sum of its parts,” Ashong said in his closing speech, asking the audience to raise their hands...
...some prominent Republicans are offering their own policy ideas. Frist wants to start a program modeled on the Peace Corps that would send doctors and nurses to countries lacking medical personnel. Jack Kingston, a Republican congressman from Georgia, has put out what he's called the American Renewal Project, an eight-point plan that calls for a commission to recommend spending cuts to balance the budget and stop spending the Social Security surplus. The Republican Study Committee, a group of the most conservative House members, has released a plan to balance the budget in the next five years, although...
...Bolten was promoted, he began making the first of many calls to lawmakers of both parties, including one that pleasantly surprised Representative Jack Kingston of Georgia, vice chairman of the House Republican conference. "I'm not a big fish," Kingston admitted, "and he said, 'We're interested in what you're hearing out there and what you guys on the Hill have to say. We want your input.'" Now the challenge for the new chief, and his boss, is what to do with...
...visits. And there is evidence that Koizumi's stubbornness is now threatening to do irreparable harm to Japan's long-term interests. "Japan pays nearly 20% of the U.N.'s budget, which [it says] argues strongly for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council," says Jeff Kingston, a professor of Japanese history at Temple University's campus in Tokyo. "But China's Security Council veto can block Japan from membership for as long as it likes. So do you think visiting Yasukuni is advancing Japan's interests...