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...Tsvangirai's focus on a bright, distant future also takes little account of how firmly Zimbabwe - a place of first-generation Toyota Corollas and jukeboxes playing Sade and early Madonna - is stuck in the past. To this day, state newspapers and radio stations lead the news with profiles of ZANU heroes who have been dead for 30 years. Mugabe's men obsessively blame Britain, the old colonial power, for all Zimbabwe's problems today. Mugabe - a man who wears impeccable suits and drinks afternoon tea - is "half African and half British," says his biographer Heidi Holland, "and the two halves...
Even now, most Zimbabweans seem to find it hard to admit that their emperor - the man who Tsvangirai acknowledges was a "national hero" once - might be naked. But for how long? As I drive back to the airport, Mugabe's voice comes on the radio. He is speaking at the funeral of yet another hero of the fight for independence. "I have delivered to my nation, my people, a Zimbabwe that is free," he says. "We call ourselves Zimbabweans now, and we never called ourselves Zimbabweans before. We never had a flag before, did we? No. We never...
...handful of artists are utilizing music's important social role to sing about postwar reconciliation. Songs of peace regularly drift out of Body Guard Studio and are sometimes heard on the radio. Musicians often also spread their message to the countryside through a United Nations development program called Peace Tours, which takes groups of artists and singers to rural areas to talk about peacemaking...
Palin, Sarah • bill banning a beloved pastime of - shooting defenseless animals from aircraft - is introduced in the Senate • Clear Channel is not interested in syndicating a radio show hosted by, so we may never get to hear blithering twaddle like this • demagoguery of is noted by Carl Bernstein and Maureen Dowd • hated reporters are told by that "our troops are willing to die for you" so "how 'bout ya quit makin' things up" in honor of the American soldiers so grotesquely exploited by • quitting speech of is ridiculed by Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart...
...radio, the Senator had sounded definite. "Formal announcement: I am in. Then the actual leaving of the Senate will be sometime - October, November - that, in that time frame," she told Fort Worth WBAP-AM talk-radio host Mark Davis. In 2006, she had indicated she might challenge him and then backed off. "No one expected him to run again, and I stepped back last time," she told Davis. But this time, she said, there would be no "free pass" for Perry. Later, she told reporters in a Capitol presser: "He can really help in many ways if he doesn...