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Their music exploded irrepressibly from the forced integration of these castes to sweep the world as the definitive American art form. New Orleans, the Crescent City, the Big Easy--home of Mardi Gras, the second-line parade, the po' boy sandwich, the shotgun house--is so many people's favorite city. But not favorite enough to embrace the integrated superiority of its culture as a national objective. Not favorite enough to digest the gift of supersized soul internationally embodied by the great Louis Armstrong. Over time, New Orleans became known as the national center for frat-party-type decadence...
...certainly naked - cavorted in the surf. It's thought that the missionaries convinced the chiefs that fanifo was corrupting Tongan youth and didn't belong in a budding Christian society, and that the chiefs placed on the sport a tapu, or ban. "This is, to some extent, speculation," says Po'oi Puloka, secretary general of the Tonga Amateur Sports Association and National Olympic Committee (tasanoc), "but it's more than likely what happened." (The banning of a sport has a more recent precedent in Tonga. In the 1920s authorities prohibited the playing of cricket, which had so gripped the local...
...first secretary François Hollande. Fabius' crime: defying party policy to campaign for a no vote on the E.U. constitution. "Fabius' reversal on the referendum was to provide him with support for a 2007 presidential bid," says Dominique Reynié, a political analyst and professor at Sciences Po. "But the damage the no vote has had will make any gains short-lived." Indeed, the Elyseé ambitions of Hollande, 50, and Fabius wilted last week. They trailed Jospin in the poll that identified him as the most credible candidate. More bad news: the same poll found most leftist voters...
...that a self-described "nationalist" reporter who once worked for Hong Kong's pro-Beijing daily Wen Wei Po and a sociologist who often appeared on Chinese television to promote government policy are being detained for anti-Chinese activities? According to Lau, the 55-year-old reporter was picked up by Chinese security personnel on April 22 while in Guangzhou to collect a top-secret manuscript by a friend of Zhao Ziyang, the popular ex-Premier purged for opposing the Tiananmen crackdown, who died under house arrest in January. Although the manuscript's exact contents are not clear, a previous...
...having the ability to call the police if you see something, like a mysterious screaming man with pink polka-dotted hair, is more effective than just saying something to the person next to you who is equally sketched out. But would you now call the police and say, Hey po-po, Im on the Red Line and this punk is creeping me out? Isnt observing serious weirdos half the fun of riding...