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...other museums will offer their own less glamorous versions of the art/fashion/music nexus. On Nov. 5, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts unveils "Dangerous Curves: Art of the Guitar," a 350-year survey that's heavy on the post-Stratocaster era. In the same vein, the Brooklyn Museum of Art will premiere "Hip-Hop Nation: Roots, Rhymes, and Rage" on Sept. 22, a survey of rap culture from its beginnings in the late 1970s. Pick your outfit...
...business-political nexus came up again in the federal investigation of Teamster efforts to swap contributions with the D.N.C. in the 1996 campaigns to re-elect both Clinton and union boss Ron Carey. McAuliffe had worked on a high-paying corporate issue with a political consultant who later hatched the swap plan on behalf of the Teamsters. But McAuliffe told prosecutors he had never agreed to a trade and says he has not heard from them since...
...chance to democratize Miami's discussion on how best to democratize Cuba. It's also a bid to reconnect the city--plagued by voter fraud and rampant official corruption--to mainstream U.S. civic values, as well as to its potential as the hemisphere's trade, tourism and cultural nexus...
...ordinance could cost Miami an estimated quarter-billion dollars in lost revenue over the next decade. For years, the city has groomed itself as a nexus of culture. But Miami-Dade officials pushed away this year's Latin Grammy Awards--and the projected $40 million they would mean to the local economy--because Cubans might perform. And that's a fraction of the $130 million the scuttled 2007 Pan American Games (which will include Cuban athletes) would have brought...
Every song is a classic, from the messages of love to the anthems of revolution. But more than that, the album is a political and cultural nexus, drawing inspiration from the Third World and then giving voice to it the world over. RUNNERS-UP Kind of Blue by Miles Davis; Are You Experienced? by Jimi Hendrix...