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...sooner had the leaders of thebig seven economic powers arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia today, than President Clinton and Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama were trading tough talk about their trade standoff. Clinton refused to budge: "Billions of dollars in American exports and thousands of jobs are at stake," Clinton said of the automobile dispute, insisting that he would imposeunprecedented trade sanctions against Japanif the standoff continues past June 28. Murayama replied that the two allies should not conduct business "with both of our fists raised...
...Cajuns are descendants of the Acadians, a band of French colonists who founded "l'Acadie" in 1624 in what is now Nova Scotia. Expelled by the British in 1755 -- an event still remembered locally as the "Grand Darangement" -- they eventually wound up in the isolated, rural southwest of Louisiana. There, sharing space with African Americans, many descended from French-speaking Creole "free men of color," they evolved their unique musical language...
Arguably one of the most original female artists on today's music scene, Sarah McLachlan's music is difficult to categorize, drawing elements from folk, blues, rock and even New Age. While Fumbling Towards Eastasy, her third album, was well-received the 26-year-old Nova Scotian has not yet reached super-star status...
...imagine that game? Two "prime-time players" in Randolph Childress from Wake and Kerry Kittles from Nova going head to head. Childress wins...
...artistically to the first set's fine performances. One exception was the tune "Don't Rock the Jazz Boat," a staple of Jones's groups through the years. While Latin beats adapted to the jazz context often come across as trite and excessively happy, Jones metamorphosed the bossa nova of this chart into a menacing Amazonian thunderstorm. Distant rumblings on the toms grew louder and louder during Jones's solo, and as the storm came crashing down, lightning forked through the cymbals and snare...