Word: rural
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People who see him -- and countless millions have -- do not forget him. His appearances generate an electricity unmatched by anyone else on earth. That explains, for instance, why in rural Kenyan villages thousands of children, plus many cats and roosters and even hotels, are named John Paul. Charisma is the only conceivable reason why a CD featuring him saying the rosary -- in Latin -- against a background of Bach and Handel is currently ascending the charts in Europe. It also accounts for the dazed reaction of a young woman who found herself, along with the thousands around her in a sports...
Just days after pledging to shrink the Department of Housing and Urban Development as part of the ongoing tax-cut frenzy, President Clinton today pledged up to $3.5 billion in HUD grants and tax breaks to 106 economically-distressed communities. The biggest winners are three cities and six rural areas designated as "empowerment zones," a scheme designed to lure business to depressed areas first championed by conservative former HUD Secretary Jack Kemp. The urban zones -- Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, New York and Philadelphia-Camden, N.J. -- stand to receive $100 million each in flexible grants and tax breaks for local businesses...
Beside a dusty, rural road in the eastern Transvaal, six families of black farmers gathered two weeks ago under a thorn tree to celebrate their return to their ancestral lands. A hand-lettered cardboard sign hanging on a frayed tent nearby read Ra Boile Gae in Pedi, a language spoken in the north of the country, and Home Sweet Home in English. Pedis are the largest of the northern Sotho groups, and these jubilant returnees were members of a community that had lived and farmed there in Doornkop for more than 70 years. They tilled the fertile soil and earned...
...patriot movement was galvanized by two events: the bloody face-off in rural Idaho between white separatist Randy Weaver and law-enforcement officials in 1992 and the fiery siege of the Waco, Texas, compound of cult leader David Koresh in 1993. The violent confrontations helped convince many would-be militia members that the U.S. government was repressive as well as violently antigun and untrustworthy. "The Waco thing really woke me up," says Frank Swan, 36, a trucker who is a member of a militia in Montana. "They went in there and killed women and children...
...most fortunate and gifted, there comes the chance to perform on Sinatra's Duets album. What is generally unknown is that the long tradition of American folk instrumentalists remains well alive, albeit largely in obscurity. Out of the bluegrass and other string band music that flourished in rural America, came a national folk music of sorts. Folk music even has its stars, and David Grisman and Tony Rice are undeniably two of the largest. Unfortunately their latest collaboration, Tone Poems, shares a fundamental problem with much recorded folk music it lacks an expressive immediacy, a soul...