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...real accomplishment, Dickinson will tell you, is what has happened in the 15 developing nations where Equal Exchange buys from indigenous farmer cooperatives. In Oaxaca, Mexico, residents ride a fleet of cooperative-funded buses on routes that take hours to walk. In La Libertad, El Salvador, children who used to walk past an empty school building now study inside with a teacher who is paid by the cooperative. In Chajul, Guatemala, a cooperative-funded health clinic is helping reduce child mortality. And in remote corners of Peru, growing numbers of children of uneducated farmers are leaving to pursue university degrees...
...Learning with Performers” series. Byron is a rare breed of jazzman. Few choose to specialize in the clarinet. Few modern jazz artists are unafraid to be explicitly political; Byron routinely gives his compositions titles like “(The press made) Rodney King (responsible for the LA riots).” Fewer still cite influences ranging from Duke Ellington and klezmer legend Mickey Katz to rap label Sugar Hill Records and the Afro-Cuban rhythmic tradition. “These are all types of music that I’ve always been interested...
...mention more captivating beats.A product of the same recording sessions that produced this year’s “Fijacion Oral I,” “Vol. II” contains no songs from the Spanish album, even excluding her effortlessly erotic delight “La Tortura.” Separating her songs into language-based categories dilutes the power of both albums, and neither the Spanish nor English album achieves full levels of Freudian fixation. On “Vol. II,” Shakira begins with a religious monologue...
...sound, my answer has to be yes. The disc does have a few missteps. Mark and Roger’s introspective “What You Own” seems flat; it has lost the grit of the original recording. Several verses of the otherwise serviceable “La Vie Boheme” are inexplicably rearranged. The soundtrack also includes the bonus track “Love Heals,” written by Jonathan Larson for an organization promoting AIDS education while he was writing “Rent.” Sadly, the track is cheesy, uneven...
...dish, and a water-ski boat. To demonstrate the fortitude of the harp—as well as to express its coolness—a model attempts to slice bread by forcing it through the instrument’s strings.“I was just kind of in la-la land when she was trying to stick a loaf of bread through a harp,” he says in retrospect, “and I haven’t priced a harp in at least a couple lifetimes, so I didn’t know...