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...stretching it to say there was a silver lining in 9/11 for Middle Eastern Americans. But it did get them America's attention, and not just on cross-country flights. Save for the occasional terrorist or sheik stereotype, the pop-culture profile of this growing group had been almost nil. You might know that F. Murray Abraham or Danny Thomas had Middle Eastern ancestry, but it was trivia, like knowing that Dan Aykroyd was Canadian. There was no figure whose ethnicity deeply informed his or her work--no Arab-American Dick Gregory or Iranian-American Lenny Bruce...
...their lives and that it would be greedy to hope to do it twice, "then it could be ugly for them." From the other side of the world, Colin Croft expects to see a thrashing. Galvanized by defeat, he says, "Australia are going to beat the English 4-nil, I figure. England are not even going to go close to winning a Test match...
...with a Republican in the White House, Tribe’s chances at the Supreme Court bench are next to nil. He was considered a contender in the Clinton years, but Senate Republicans would have fiercely resisted his nomination: Clinton aides conducted a head-count of the Senate, Tribe says, and they concluded that he could have been confirmed but that he would have faced “a bloodbath of opposition...
...BEASTIE BOYS Movie: Awesome; I F_____ Shot That!, in theaters March 31 Set list: The punk rappers gave 50 fans cameras to shoot an '04 show Nonfan appeal: Nil. Brass Monkey is Brass Monkey, from any angle Bring your: Right to party, and a camera...
...also buying it - and at a fast-growing rate. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (ifpi) says that global sales of digital music zoomed to $1.1 billion last year, up from $380 million in 2004. Digital music now provides around 6% of most companies' revenues, up from almost nil two years ago, and that growth shows no signs of peaking. And more than any other major label, EMI's comeback mirrors the changing fortunes of the music world. In its half-year results for the period ending Sept. 30, 2005, EMI's revenues returned to growth for the first...