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Warner rightly points out that much early rock & roll (as well, I might add, as blues and jazz) consisted of white musicians' "outright thievery" of black musicians' work. This hardly justifies the same practice in 1991. After all, when Madonna's "Justify My Love" contains the exact same drum beat as James Brown's "Funky Drummer Beat," we witness the exact same phenomenon half a century later...
That reluctance seemed to square with Western intelligence reports that the Soviet military has been quietly circumventing the new treaty reducing conventional forces in Europe. The outright violations, according to NATO observers, consisted of understating the real level of Soviet forces and reassigning three European-based infantry divisions as "coastal defense" units under command of the navy, which the agreement exempts...
...Bush may be on the verge of plunging the United States into a brutal conflict in the Middle East. That he is undertaking such an action by lying to his own people is an immense tragedy. The press and the government have barraged the American public with halftruths and outright lies in order to perpetrate a crime that will only benefit a few moneyed oil tycoons. Statements that should be laughed at have, through biased coverage, become almost universally accepted "truths...
...military option can succeed at acceptable cost. Though some may loudly question White House policy, few have ventured any on-the-record challenge. That suits the President just fine. Bush says he is willing to continue "consulting" with Capitol Hill leaders, but he has made no effort to seek outright congressional approval for his push toward war. His concern, as he explained to TIME in an interview published last week, is that anything less than an overwhelming endorsement of his policy by Congress would convince Saddam that the U.S. is divided and therefore reluctant to fight...
...despite this deception, the music listening public reaps the only true benefit of these actions--music they enjoy hearing. So long as performers avoid the outright thievery that was prevalent in the '50s--and most do today--their "borrowed" music isn't illegal, unethical or immoral...