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...show biz must have wondered, Who let him in? A slight figure with voluptuous lips and a hawk's hooded eyes, he hid behind his guitar and his neck-brace harmonica and emitted those torturous barnyard vowel sounds. Yet almost immediately, people got it. The imagery was so rich and cascading, the urgency of his outrage so compelling and contagious that listeners pretty quickly adjusted their long-held definition of what a folk song--or a pop song--was or could be. And if he had to sing that way to write that way, then sing away...
...tell President Bush that both sides need to manage the relationship better, and that America's containment policy won't work. Second, China hopes the U.S. will stop arms sale to Taiwan because it is encouraging Taiwan secessionists. Third, Chinese have the same right as Americans to enjoy a rich lifestyle and do not appreciate the double standard on China's oil policy. The issue should not become politicized, as when CNOOC made its bid to buy Unocal...
...that they don't even appear in your article! As an example of good ethnic-minority integration, the Mirandese dialect, spoken by approximately 10,000 people in northeastern Portugal, was recognized by the state in 1999 as the second language in that area. Globalization can coexist with the cultural richness offered by ethnic minorities. History has proved the terrible consequences of oppressing subcultures that don't align with the dominant culture. Your article may help shed some light on the treasures of cultural diversity and bring more social awareness throughout the world. Alberto Rouiller Lisbon Sectarian Sniping...
After reading the post-Katrina rantings of Paul Krugman, Frank Rich, Maureen Dowd, and Bob Herbert—which were so strained and predictable that one wonders whether they were largely pre-written with the only name of the affected city and a few specific details left blank—it struck me that these were the sort of opinions one might expect to encounter during a famine in 19th century Russia: sincere belief that not only is one man personally responsible for an act of nature but also that, somehow, he alone could have made everything work...
...cash economy was seeping into their remote world, and the Ganiga longed for Joe's wealth. Black Harvest revisited the Ganiga five years later, on the eve of the long-awaited first harvest of coffee from a joint venture with Leahy that the tribe hoped would make them rich too. When harvesting was interrupted by an outbreak of tribal warfare, and international coffee prices plummeted, Connolly and Anderson were there to capture the mayhem and lost chances...