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...problems will not be solved until society, top to bottom, reforms. But where do values and moral fiber come from? For Zimbabweans, there's one refrain - sometimes phrased differently, but always the same: "We need God." One of Mtukudzi's best-known songs outside Zimbabwe is Hear Me, Lord (1994), a high-speed ride to heaven on a guitar riff. The rousing plea for divine intervention was covered by American singer Bonnie Raitt. Perhaps better than any other song in his catalog, its lyrics sum up how Zimbabweans, many devoutly Christian like Tuku, feel today: "Help me Lord...
Even the first verse of Genesis finds its way into his music, supported by a laid-back, skeletal beat in “Lord Forgive Me” from his debut album U.S.S.R. Repertoire...
...poets are anti-slavery. An anonymous English lady thoughtfully composed songs for plantation slaves to sing while working: "Bless the fields we dig and plant! / Lord! supply our ev'ry want: / Give our souls and bodies food, / And grateful hearts for ev'ry good." James Boswell took time out from finishing the "Life of Johnson" to write an excruciatingly bad (and long) poem defending slavery, "No Abolition of Slavery," a work that until now has not been republished for some 210 years...
...opponents. After the election, NTV kept up its harsh criticism of Putin's new war in Chechnya. It also lampooned him wickedly in Kukly (The Puppets), its popular satirical show. Kukly presented a touchy Putin as a crazed shrink, or an offstage presence referred to as Gospod Bog (Lord God) or just G.B., a pun on his past as a KGB officer. Another caricature - "Little Zaches," a vicious dwarf who bewitched a city into regarding him as a wise ruler - particularly infuriated Putin and his camp. The ax fell in mid-2000, when Gusinsky was accused of embezzlement and arrested...
...Still, U.S., British and Colombian investigators say the El Nogal bombing has the markings of I.R.A. and ETA tutelage. They point in particular to the sophisticated remote-control detonation of the car bomb. Colombia suffered a horrific rash of urban bombings just over a decade ago, when the drug lord Pablo Escobar lashed out at government efforts to rein in his cocaine cartel. The FARC is similarly piqued by Uribe's counterinsurgency efforts and recent U.S. aid increases for Colombia's weak but improving military. Last Friday, at least 16 people were killed in an explosion during a police raid...